R Native API

Working Group: Future-proof Native APIs for R

This working groups will assess current native API usage, gather community input, and work towards an easy-to-understand, consistent and verifiable API that will drive R language adoption.

2016-06-30 Meeting UseR!

see R Native API meeting 2016-06-30

2016-06-20 Teleconference

see R Native API call 2016-06-20

2016-06-20 Survey of API usage

see Initial Survey of API Usage

2016-06-13 Initial WG members

• Alexander Bertram, BeDataDriven
• Torsten Hothorn, University of Zurich
• Mick Jordan, Oracle Labs
• Stephen Kaluzny, TIBCO (ISC representative)
• Michael Lawrence, Genentech
• Karl Millar, Google
• Duncan Murdoch, University of Western Ontario
• Radford Neal, University of Toronto
• Edzer Pebesma, University of Münster
• Indrajit Roy, HP Labs
• Michael Sannella, TIBCO
• Lukas Stadler, Oracle Labs
• Luke Tierney, University of Iowa
• Simon Urbanek, AT&T Research Labs
• Jan Vitek, Northeastern University
• Gregory Warnes, Boehringer Ingelheim

2016-05-10 Initial phone meeting

Attendence:

• Stephen Kaluzny (WG sponsor in ISC)
• Lukas Stadler, Adam Welc, Mark Hornick (authors of the ISC project proposal)

Topics:

• Defining a WG leader (Lukas Stadler)
• Channels on which do distribute call for participation:

• r-devel mailing list
• Authors of important packages (top packages in download stats) with native components
• Alterative and modified implementations: Tibco TERR, renjin, pqr, cxxr/rho, FastR
• Program committee of the RIOT workshop [[1]]
• Lukas Stadler and Mick Jordan as initial members from Oracle Labs

• Discussion about stopping criteria for the WG / "What is the job of this WG?"
• Plan for meetings and discussions, general openness of all WG communication