rextendr: Build 'Rust' Powered 'R' Packages
Claus O. Wilke, Andy Thomason, Mossa M. Reimert, Ilia A. Kosenkov, Malcolm Barrett, Josiah Parry, Kenneth Vernon · 2021
Provides functions to compile and load Rust code from R, similar to how 'Rcpp' or 'cpp11' allow easy interfacing with C++ code. Also provides helper functions to create R packages that use Rust code. Under the hood, the Rust crate 'extendr' is used to do all the heavy lifting.