On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, luigi scarso wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 4:12 AM Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Fabrice L wrote:
>>> Thanks for your answer. I did not know about the filter module. I had a
>>> look; the module is powerful… but complex to install.
>>
>> Why do you say so? If you are using context-minimals, then this can be
>> installed like any other module. If you are using texlive, then can be
>> installed using tlmgr.
>
> I argue that talking of a ffi binding of R is out-of-question ...

The filter module works by executing a binary in the shell 
(os.execute(...)), and caching the result. So it is much simpler than an 
ffi binding.

FFI binding will be faster, but requires more work (I once tried to figure 
out if I could create ffi bindings for octave, and gave up).

Aditya