R API!

[alanpaulkwan]

R has a wonderful data science community. It would be great if there was an R binding.

The DuckDB API is built here, I wonder if this could be template code:

https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/tree/master/tools/rpkg/R

Worst case, R can do reticulate, which is a Python wrapper.

[lmangani]

Thanks for the request. R binding can be supported in libchdb where we have hooks for Go, NodeJS, Rust, etc.

I'm not familiar with R development, but it seems very close to the C/C++ binding. This template could be a starting point: https://gist.github.com/lmangani/e30edae31ad939e539989b8e326fb449

[dwinkler1]

I'm a contributor to the RClickhouse package that integrates Clickhouse with R's DBI package. We are wrapping the C++ Clickhouse library to do that. One of the major struggles was to handle data types (R still doesn't support 64bit INTs for example). Maybe our package can provide inspiration. https://github.com/IMSMWU/RClickhouse/tree/master