From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Fri Aug 20 17:39:31 2010
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:39:31 -0400
Subject: [Rd] C or Java code generation
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On Aug 20, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> 
> On 20 August 2010 at 08:02, Sharpie wrote:
> | So, unless I am gravely mistaken, RInside is just a nice cross-platform
> | replacement for the RDCOM interface.  It won't solve the problem of needing
> 
> I wrote RInside, and I am unaware of any attempts of mine to either copy,
> clone or otherwise imitate any of the non-portable technologies from the
> Pacific Northwest I happen to be rather unfamiliar with to boot.  So I fear
> that were indeed gravely mistaken. 
> 

I fear not: RInside, Rserve, R[D]COM, JRI, ... all embed R which was that his point, rightly so. 

There is no way I know of to turn R code into something that can run on its own without R present (save for a tiny subset of Rmath).

Cheers,
Simon



> RInside delivers what it promises: an embedded R instance for your C++
> program.  And thanks to the magic that is Rcpp and all of the work Romain and
> I put into it, you get a rather rich interface between R and C++ that has no
> parallel I know of.
> 
> | R installed on the client's computer in order to fully use the R environment
> | which is dependent on packages.
> 
> That on the other hand is a true statement and as far as I am concerned a
> good thing as well.  
> 
> Dirk
> 
> -- 
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[Rd] C or Java code generation
Simon Urbanek