Rashinban is a Cloujure library designed to work with R. It is built on the Rserve library, and provides R functions by dynamically creating proxy functions into a Clojure namespace. It also converts automatically data types between Clojure and R when you invoke the proxy functions.
By using Rashinban, you will be easily able to use plentiful R functions from Clojure.
- Mac OS X 10.10
- Rashinban has been developed on Max OS X 10.10.x. It should be able to run on other Unix-like operating systems.
- R 3.2
- Rserve 1.8
Before using Rashinban, you have to install R and Rserve into your local host settings.
1. Start your Rserve server
Rashinban comes with a shell script to start a dedicated Rserve server. The shell command will then just be:
$ ./start-server.sh
2. Initialize the Rshinban library
tnoda.rashinban/init is the entry point to start Rashinban. It establishes a connection to the Rserve server and searches all available R functions to create Clojure proxy functions. The only thing you have to do is:
user> (require 'tnoda.rashinban :as r)
nil
user> (r/init)
nil
3. Use R functions by invoking thier Clojure proxy functions
tnoda.rashinban/init creates proxy functions for R functions into the tnoda.rashinban namespace. You can call R functions by prefixig r/ to their names. For example:
user> (r/sum (range 10))
[45.0]
user> (r/var (range 10))
[9.166666666666666]
| Clojure Type | R Type |
|---|---|
| nil | NULL |
| symbol | symbol |
| boolean | logical vectors |
| string | character vectors |
| seqable of doubles | numeric vector |
| seqable of longs | numeric vector |
https://github.com/tnoda/rashinban/wiki/Rashinban2Features
Copyright © 2015 Takahiro Noda
Distributed under the Apache License version 2.0.