extendr

🚀 Blazingly Fast & User-friendly R extensions using Rust 🦀

extendr brings the performance, safety, and reliability of Rust to R. Write fast and scalable R packages without worrying about R's C API.

Documentation & Resources

Website: https://extendr.github.io/
User Guide: https://extendr.github.io/user-guide/
API Documentation: https://docs.rs/extendr-api/
R Package Docs: https://extendr.github.io/rextendr/

Key Repositories

Repository	Description
`extendr`	🦀 extendr's source code
`rextendr`	📦 Create and manage your Rust-based R packages
`awesome-extendr`	⭐ Curated list of extendr packages
`extendr.github.io`	📚 Documentation website source

Community

Discord: Join our community discussions 💬 (Discord invite)
Issues: Report bugs and request features in individual repositories 🐛
Contributions: See CONTRIBUTING.md in each repository 🤝

Core Components

Rust workspace 🦀 with battle-tested crates:

extendr-api - ergonomic, opinionated, and safe interface between R and Rust
extendr-engine - launch R sessions from Rust
extendr-ffi - hand-crafted bindings to R's C-API

R package 📦 for seamless development:

rextendr - a {usethis}-like package that scaffolds extendr-powered R packages

Getting Started

Prerequisites

R (≥ 4.2)
cargo and rustc (≥ 1.65) - install via rustup

Get Started

We recommend using the development version of {rextendr} from GitHub.

# Install from CRAN
install.packages("rextendr")

# Development version
remotes::install_github("extendr/rextendr")

usethis::create_package("helloextendr")
rextendr::use_extendr()
rextendr::document()

hello_world()
#> [1] "Hello, world!"