extendr vs JuliaCall

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extendr		JuliaCall
	Project
2	Mentions	3
395	Stars	257
2.3%	Growth	-
8.2	Activity	1.0
12 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Rust	Language	HTML
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

extendr

Posts with mentions or reviews of extendr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-01.

Is c++ still the best performance companion language for R?
4 projects | /r/Rlanguage | 1 May 2022

Consider rust.
Introducing tidypolars - a Python data frame package for R tidyverse users
9 projects | /r/rstats | 10 Nov 2021

JuliaCall

Posts with mentions or reviews of JuliaCall. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-01.

Is c++ still the best performance companion language for R?
4 projects | /r/Rlanguage | 1 May 2022

I’ve had some joy with JuliaCall.
[D] What's your favorite concept/rule/theorem in statistics and why?
3 projects | /r/statistics | 27 Apr 2021

We have an R interface to the Julia library, but it still requires Julia to be installed. It uses JuliaCall, and honestly you don't even need to use our R wrapper.
Announcing RStudio 1.4
1 project | /r/rstats | 21 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing extendr and JuliaCall you can also consider the following projects:

ormsgpack - Msgpack serialization/deserialization library for Python, written in Rust using PyO3 and rust-msgpack. Reboot of orjson. msgpack.org[Python]

Julia-DataFrames-Tutorial - A tutorial on Julia DataFrames package

polars - Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust

JuliaTutorials - Learn Julia via interactive tutorials!

tidypolars - Tidy interface to polars

Zygote-Mutating-Arrays-WorkAround.jl - A tutorial on how to work around ‘Mutating arrays is not supported’ error while performing automatic differentiation (AD) using the Julia package Zygote.

tidytable - Tidy interface to 'data.table'

roux - Simple and (a)synchronous Reddit API wrapper for Rust.

zana - Browser extension that adds book information and ratings to supported bookstore websites.

newswrap - Hacker News API bindings for Rust.

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