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FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 1.0 RC16

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@ansalond ansalond released this 23 Apr 20:05
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FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.5.1, reuses the base packages of GNU R and is compatible with the ecosystem.

For example, FastR can install and run unmodified complex R packages like ggplot2, Shiny, or Rcpp, for compatibility with other packages please refer to the compatibility checker: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/compatibility/.

Being implemented on top of GraalVM, FastR uses its state-of-the-art JIT compiler and has better peak performance, often several times faster than GNU R.

The R language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/r/

Bug fixes in RC16:

  • match worked incorrectly with descending sequences (e.g., 3:1)
  • match did not handle descending sequences properly (e.g. match(1:3, 3:1))
  • lexer allows any "letter" in identifiers including, e.g., Japanese, which matches GNU-R behavior
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