A curated list of extendr-backed packages

[atsyplenkov]

Hey extendr Team,

How about we create a list in the extendr docs with known packages using extendr in the backend (smth like awesome list)? It could be a neat way for users to see how versatile extendr is in real projects and give some inspiration.

For example we can do smth as follows (headers from https://github.com/qinwf/awesome-R)

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Last updated: 25 March 2024

Geospatial

• arcgeocode - Public or private ArcGIS Geocoder Services from R.
• arcpbf - Rust crate and R package for processing Esri FeatureCollection Protocol Buffers.
• h3o - H3 Geospatial Indexing system by Uber.
• rsgeo - R bindings to the geo Rust crate

Data manipulation

• dialrs - Parse phone numbers.
• r-polars - An access to Polars Data Frame library.
• timeless - Date/time parser.
• zoomerjoin - Superlatively-fast fuzzy-joins in R.

Data analysis

• changeforest - Random forests for change point detection.
• rshift - Paleoecology and regime shift analysis.

Miscellaneous

• b64 - A lightweight and very fast base64 encoder and decoder.

[JosiahParry]

Thank you! I'd note that vctrsrs is more of an experiment!

I'll add a few more packages below that I'm aware of and have made myself:

• zoomerjoin fuzzy matching
• changeforest random forests for changepoint detection
• b64 extremely fast base 64 encoding and decoding (in need of a new CRAN release...)
• arcpbf process Esri FeatureCollection protocol buffers
• arcgeocode WIP at the moment...
• h3o Uber's H3 index

[alexhroom]

I have rshift - statistics package for (paleo)ecology

[JosiahParry]

Another package that is using extendr for tokenizers! !https://github.com/mlverse/tok

[JosiahParry]

Two of my R packages for work are now using extendr under the hood.
{arcgisutils} - https://github.com/R-ArcGIS/arcgisutils/
{arcgisplaces} - https://github.com/R-ArcGIS/arcgisplaces

[kbvernon]

Do we want to create a separate repo for this and then link to it via extendr.github.io? Or should we handle the listing here?

[JosiahParry]

Great question! We can probably do a better job of figuring out these packages. I wonder if we can explore the CRAN DB and look for the presence of Config/rextendr/version:

[JosiahParry]

Some packages that are showing up on GitHub search:

• https://github.com/abdenlab/oxbow
• https://shrektan.github.io/fcl/
• https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/ymd/index.html
• https://github.com/ixpantia/orbweaver-r

[DavZim]

To add to this: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rtiktoken/index.html, https://github.com/DavZim/rtiktoken/