This paper complements "Writing R Extensions," the official guide for writing R extensions, for those interested in developing R packages using Rust. It highlights idiosyncrasies of R and Rust that must be addressed by any integration and describes how to develop Rust-based packages which comply with the CRAN Repository Policy. This paper introduces the "cargo" framework, a transparent Rust-based API which wraps commonly-used parts of R's API with minimal overhead and allows a programmer to easily add additional wrappers.
@article{arxiv.2108.07179,
title = {Writing R Extensions in Rust},
author = {David B. Dahl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07179},
year = {2021}
}