Linking R and Julia?

Question

Julia looks very promising for fast and syntax-sane computation (e.g. here), but I suspect it will not be anywhere near R in terms of overall statistics workflow for some ti

Answer 1

The RJulia R package looks quite good now from R. R CMD check runs without warnings or errors (if julia is properly installed).

Biggest TODO in my view is to get Julia to return named lists which constitute the really basic flexible general data structure in R.

Note that Doug Bates alerted me about RCall a bi-directional interface from Julia to R (i.e., the other direction than R to Julia). Also, Doug recommended to target julia 0.4.0 rather than the current stable versions of julia.