🚀 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.

• 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/

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

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

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

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!"