Is there an R implementation for Java or .NET?

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Is there Java or .NET version of R? (like Jython / IronPython for the Python language)

I guess some R-packages which use C or Fortran may not run on Java/.NET version of R, but as long as pure R code can be run, it must be great.

score 15 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 17 '22 at 07:37

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A pure Java implementation of R: https://www.renjin.org/

JRI allows you to call R from any Java program, so any language on the JVM should be able to call the JRI jars. See my example of how to use this in this question: R from within Java. As an example, there is a clojure library that is currently being developed around JRI by Joel Boehland: Rincanter (read about it here).

edited Nov 17 '22 at 07:37

Dave Jarvis

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answered Feb 19 '10 at 14:34

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Sorry for the downvote, but this is technically no longer correct. – Joachim Sauer May 18 '11 at 07:43
Thanks @Joachim. I had seen renjin a while ago, but forgot about this question. :) – Shane May 18 '11 at 23:31

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 29 '11 at 13:25

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Renjin is a pure-JVM implementation of the R language. It's very much under development and not production ready, but making good progress.

http://code.google.com/p/renjin

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Does REngine support 'imputeTS' package in R? – Luckylukee Mar 17 '18 at 05:32

Ian Fiske · Answer 3 · 2010-02-24T03:55:49.993

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If you needs stats on the pure JVM, you might try Incanter (www.incanter.org). It's an R-like library for Clojure, which brings lispy functional programming to the JVM. It looks like a really cool start-up with some potential. They have a pretty active user community already on their google group.

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kervin · Answer 4 · 2015-11-30T15:12:18.453

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There are 2 that I know of.

http://www.renjin.org/ - Renjin

https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin - Renjin

and...

https://github.com/allr/purdue-fastr - FastR

https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr - FastR

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 16 '18 at 13:26

FastR is a GraalVM based implementation of R. It runs on any JVM, but with GraalVM you get extra performance with the Graal compiler and Truffle framework.

On top of running existing R scripts, it has some additional features w.r.t. embeddability in JVM applications and interoperability with JVM and other GraalVM languages (including JavaScript, Ruby, Python 3).

More details in https://medium.com/graalvm/faster-r-with-fastr-4b8db0e0dceb

Is there an R implementation for Java or .NET?

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