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renjin
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bedatadriven / renjin

renjin

JVM-based interpreter for the R language for the statistical analysis.

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What it is

JVM-based interpreter for the R language for the statistical analysis.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-11-16 16:37:39 UTC to 2023-05-05 12:58:42 UTC.

0122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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thangalin·Dec 21, 2022
It'll help build cross-platform desktop applications. In theory, it'll streamline using GitHub Actions to produce platform-specific binaries, such as my FOSS Markdown editor KeenWrite[0], without having to have a copy of every target operating system. To my knowledge, cross-compiling "native" Linux and Windows binaries using Java requires duct tape, chewing gum, and warp-packer.[1][2] If there's another way to cross-compile a Java application into a standalone binary for multiple target platforms, do tell! GraalVM isn't a panacea. For example, GraalVM cannot compile Renjin[3], a pure Java R interpreter, which means switching from Renjin to FastR. Not trivial. Other sinkholes likely lurk that'll only reveal themselves when walking through the weeds. [0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite [1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/06/29
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/write-once-build-an... [2]: https://github.com/dgiagio/warp [3]: https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/issues/564
In OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native Compilation
thangalin·Feb 4, 2017
The article describes Markdown[1], basically. In my opinion, content should be written once and transformed to any format[2], including ConTeXt[3], docx, HTML, EPUB, or plain text. But here's a puzzler. Every software developer defines and uses variables. If variables are so powerful, why do WYSIWYG word processors lack the ability to quickly and easily insert variable definitions?[4] In the screenshot, the left-hand side provides an editable variable definition hierarchy, the middle pane provides a Markdown editor, and the right-hand side provides a real-time HTML preview of the content with variables interpolated and substituted. After variables, programming language integration--such as R[5]--comes naturally. Consider the following syntax (that could be hidden through a UI): `r#csv2md('data.csv',totals=TRUE)` The function imports
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data from an external data source and converts it to Markdown. The HTML version can be styled, or piped through pandoc to create beautiful PDF output[6]. In the screenshot, the left-hand side shows the csv2md command (totals are calculated automatically for numeric columns), the middle pane shows an HTML preview (real-time), and the right-hand side shows a PDF produced from the same source document using pandoc and ConTeXt. The CSV file could also be a JSON request over HTTP, or database query, meaning that the document is always up-to-date with the most recent data: a living document. This could be accomplished without having to change the source document, as well: `r#import(v$data$source,totals=TRUE)` Here, v$data$source is a variable that defines a data source. In this case, the value might be 'data.csv', but could be 'protocol://host/app/api/json'. The variables themselves could be sourced from a YAML file, JSON data stream, or remote database. This is what I've been working towards for the last several months.[7] There's more that this editor can do, but it's still in early beta stages, should anyone care to try it. [1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/168 [2]: http://pandoc.org/ [3]: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ [4]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/scrivenvar/mast... [5]: https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/ [6]: http://i.imgur.com/Qe6mTpx.png [7]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/scrivenvar
In Foolproof HTML
bedatadriven·Apr 29, 2015
This looks pretty nice. Pointer/array arithmetic seems to be handled nicely, (double)malloc(sizeof(double)*100) looks pretty ugly but it's hard to tell what's going on under the DoubleContainer hood. For OSS (or other projects) that just need running JVM byte code, checkout the GCC Bridge component of Renjin, which uses a combination of GCC to Soot to compile C and Fortran code to bytecode: https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/tree/master/tools/gcc...
In C to Java Translation. Automatic, Complete, Correct. Free for Open-Source.
bedatadriven·Jan 19, 2015
This is precisely what we do in Renjin in order to translate C/Fortran to Java: https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/blob/master/tools/gcc... This little plugin simply dumps GCC's gimple to JSON, yielding for example: https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/blob/master/tools/gcc... LLVM's design looks very attractive, but for scientific computing Fortran is really important, and AFAICT, LLVM doesn't have an intermediate representation comparable to Gimple: LLIR seems to be at the level of the registers rather than the nice abstract Gimple, but perhaps I just haven't looked deep enough.
In Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC

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