The paper Writing R Extensions in Rust 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. The 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.
To cite in publications, please use
David B. Dahl (2021), Writing R Extensions in Rust, arXiv:2108.07179 [cs.PL], URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07179.
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Misc{,
title = {Writing R Extensions in Rust},
author = {David B. Dahl},
year = {2021},
eprint = {2108.07179},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
primaryclass = {cs.PL},
}