This summer I will be giving an invited talk at the annual French R Meeting in Grenoble as well as a shorter talk at UseR 2015 in Aalborg. The presentations will feature some recent R packages in the json/web space (curl, jsonlite, mongolite, V...

The jsonlite package implements a robust, high performance JSON parser and generator for R, optimized for statistical data and the web. This week version 0.9.16 appeared on CRAN which has a new prettifying system, improved performance and some additional tweaks for the new mongolite package. Improved Performance Everyones favorite feature of ...

The jsonlite package implements a robust, high performance JSON parser and generator for R, optimized for statistical data and the web. Last week version 0.9.15 appeared on CRAN which improves memory usage and compatibility with other packages. Migrating to jsonlite The upcoming release of shiny will switch from RJSONIO to jsonlite. ...

Following the release of R 3.1.3, I have pushed a new build of the OpenCPU server to launchpad, dockerhub and OBS. This update has no changes in OpenCPU itself, but includes updated versions of R, RStudio and R packages used by OpenCPU. To upg...

A new release of the js package has made it’s way to CRAN. This version adds support for compiling Coffee Script. Along with the uglify and jshint tools already in there, the package now provides a very complete suite for compiling, validating, reformating, optimizing and analyzing JavaScript code in ...

RMySQL version 0.10.2 has appeared on CRAN. This is a maintenance release to streamline the build process on various platforms. Most importantly, the Windows/OSX binary packages from CRAN are now built with full SSL support. On Linux, the configure script has been updated a bit to automatically find the mysql ...

Jade is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml. It is designed for writing HTML pages using a concise, modern syntax without the verbosity of old fasioned XML-like tags that we all want to forget about. The new rjade package implements convenient bindings from R to this popular ...

A new package has appeared on CRAN called js. This package implements bindings to several popular JavaScript libraries for validating, reformating, optimizing and analyzing JavaScript code. It builds on the V8 engine, the fully standalone JavaScript engine in R. Syntax Validation Several R packages allow the user to supply JavaScript ...

A new package has appeared on CRAN called minimist, which implements an interface to the popular JavaScript library. This package has only one function, used for argument parsing. For example in RGui on OSX, the output of commandArgs() looks like this:

<span>></span> <span>commandArgs</span><span>()</span>
<span>[</span><span>1</span><span>]</span> <span>"R"</span>                 <span>"--no-save"</span>         <span>"--no-restore-data"</span> <span>"--gui=aqua"</span>

Minimist turns that into this:

<span>></span> <span>library</span><span>(</span>minimist<span>)</span>
<span>></span> minimist<span>(</span><span>commandArgs</span><span>())</span>
<span>$</span><span>`_`</span>
<span>[</span><span>1</span><span>]</span> <span>"R"</span>

<span>$</span><span>save</span>
<span>[</span><span>1</span><span>]</span> <span>FALSE</span>

<span>$</span><span>`restore-data`</span>
<span>[</span><span>1</span><span>]</span> <span>FALSE</span>

<span>$</span>gui
<span>[</span><span>1</span><span>]</span> <span>"aqua"</span>

Note how ...

Earlier this month, V8 version 0.5 appeared on CRAN. This version adds support typed arrays as specified in ECMA 6 in order to support high performance computing and libraries compiled with emscripten. A big thanks goes to Kenton Russell (@timelyportfolio) for suggesting these features. Example: sql.js These new features increase the ...

V8 version 0.4 has appeared on CRAN. This version introduces several new console functions (console.log, console.warn, console.error) and two vignettes: Introduction to V8 for R Using NPM packages in V8 I will talk more about using NPM in another blog post this week. JavaScript Exceptions Starting V8 version 0.4 ...

This week curl version 0.4 appeared on CRAN. This release fixes a memory bug that was introduced in the previous version, and which could under some circumstances crash your R session. The new version is well tested and super stable. If you are using this package, updating is highly recommended. What ...

This week version 0.3 of the openssl package appeared on CRAN. New in this release are bindings to the cryptographic hashning functions in OpenSSL. Not exactly ground breaking (hashing functions have long been available from digest) but nice to have anyway. An overview from the new vignette: Hashing functions The functions ...

OpenCPU server version 1.4.6 has been released to launchpad, OBS, and dockerhub (more about docker in a future blog post). I also updated the instructions to install the server or build from source for rpm or deb. If you have a running deployme...

JavaScript is an fantastic language for building applications. It runs on browsers, servers and databases, making it possible to design an entire web stack in a single language. The OpenCPU JavaScript client already allows for calling R functions from JavaScript (see jsfiddles and apps). With the new V8 package we ...

The jsonlite package implements a robust, high performance JSON parser and generator for R, optimized for statistical data and the web. This week version 0.9.14 appeared on CRAN which adds some handy new features. Significant Digits By defaul...

A bit ago I blogged about new streaming features in jsonlite:

<span>library</span><span>(</span>jsonlite<span>)</span>
diamonds2 <span><-</span> stream_in<span>(</span><span>url</span><span>(</span><span>"http://jeroenooms.github.io/data/diamonds.json"</span><span>))</span>

In the same blog post it was also mentioned that R does currently not support https connections. The RCurl package does support https, but does not have a connection interface. This bothered me so I decided to write ...

OpenCPU 1.4.5 is a patch release that improves performance by taking advantage of latest versions of jsonlite, devtools, knitr, openssl, etc. Also new in this release is the option to pass build parameters for deploying on ocpu.io (or your own ...

The jsonlite stream_in and stream_out functions implement line-by-line processing of JSON data over a connection, such as a socket, url, file or pipe. Thereby we can construct a data processing pipeline that can handle large (or unlimited) amounts of data with limited memory. This post will walk through ...