• bachmeier (9/9) May 08 2023 To my surprise, a paper I wrote quite a while ago was on the
• Sergey (4/14) May 08 2023 Interesting! Thanks for sharing
• bachmeier (10/26) May 08 2023 That's correct. I doubt there ever will be, though now that D is
• bachmeier (4/32) May 08 2023 I created a Github repo with the simplest possible example to

bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:

To my surprise, a paper I wrote quite a while ago was on the 
front page of Hacker News this morning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854369

I started using D while writing that paper. My coauthor was a 
grad student having difficulty programming the simulations in R. 
I looked around and settled on D because the interoperability 
with R was so easy - we only wanted to rewrite the bottleneck, 
not the whole thing. D wasn't just fast, it made it easy to 
convert my thoughts into code. That was ten years ago.

Sergey <kornburn yandex.ru> writes:

On Monday, 8 May 2023 at 14:31:16 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 To my surprise, a paper I wrote quite a while ago was on the 
 front page of Hacker News this morning:

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854369

 I started using D while writing that paper. My coauthor was a 
 grad student having difficulty programming the simulations in 
 R. I looked around and settled on D because the 
 interoperability with R was so easy - we only wanted to rewrite 
 the bottleneck, not the whole thing. D wasn't just fast, it 
 made it easy to convert my thoughts into code. That was ten 
 years ago.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing

Unfortunately there is no approved and mature instrument to use D 
for R package creation that will be accepted for CRAN

bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:

On Monday, 8 May 2023 at 14:51:44 UTC, Sergey wrote:
 On Monday, 8 May 2023 at 14:31:16 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 To my surprise, a paper I wrote quite a while ago was on the 
 front page of Hacker News this morning:

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854369

 I started using D while writing that paper. My coauthor was a 
 grad student having difficulty programming the simulations in 
 R. I looked around and settled on D because the 
 interoperability with R was so easy - we only wanted to 
 rewrite the bottleneck, not the whole thing. D wasn't just 
 fast, it made it easy to convert my thoughts into code. That 
 was ten years ago.

 Interesting! Thanks for sharing

 Unfortunately there is no approved and mature instrument to use 
 D for R package creation that will be accepted for CRAN

That's correct. I doubt there ever will be, though now that D is 
part of GCC, I suppose it's possible.

I don't know that this is a big constraint. You can add a 
Makefile to your package that compiles the D code into a shared 
library. If you install using devtools, it will build a shared 
library that is installed as part of the package. That is 
actually what I did for this paper - I wrote a package with D 
code and the grad student installed it/used it as a regular R 
package without knowing anything about D.

bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:

On Monday, 8 May 2023 at 15:17:05 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 On Monday, 8 May 2023 at 14:51:44 UTC, Sergey wrote:
 On Monday, 8 May 2023 at 14:31:16 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 To my surprise, a paper I wrote quite a while ago was on the 
 front page of Hacker News this morning:

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854369

 I started using D while writing that paper. My coauthor was a 
 grad student having difficulty programming the simulations in 
 R. I looked around and settled on D because the 
 interoperability with R was so easy - we only wanted to 
 rewrite the bottleneck, not the whole thing. D wasn't just 
 fast, it made it easy to convert my thoughts into code. That 
 was ten years ago.

 Interesting! Thanks for sharing

 Unfortunately there is no approved and mature instrument to 
 use D for R package creation that will be accepted for CRAN

 That's correct. I doubt there ever will be, though now that D 
 is part of GCC, I suppose it's possible.

 I don't know that this is a big constraint. You can add a 
 Makefile to your package that compiles the D code into a shared 
 library. If you install using devtools, it will build a shared 
 library that is installed as part of the package. That is 
 actually what I did for this paper - I wrote a package with D 
 code and the grad student installed it/used it as a regular R 
 package without knowing anything about D.

I created a Github repo with the simplest possible example to 
show how to do this.

https://github.com/bachmeil/d-in-r-package