{"id":12866,"date":"2021-01-04T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/?p=12866"},"modified":"2021-01-04T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:29:36","slug":"bringing-r-to-swift-on-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2021\/01\/04\/bringing-r-to-swift-on-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing R to Swift on macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over Christmas break I teased some screencaps:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A more refined <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rstats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rstats<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/swift?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#swift<\/a> &quot;SwiftR&quot; example. Simple Image view + some text views, a color picker and a button that runs <\/p>\n<p>R-in-Swift code (like {reticulate} does for Python in R)<\/p>\n<p>Note no ssd\/hd storage round-trip for the plot.<\/p>\n<p>Code snippet: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fWaHnztUgd\">https:\/\/t.co\/fWaHnztUgd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y5m1I16tCB\">pic.twitter.com\/y5m1I16tCB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Caliban&#39;s War (@hrbrmstr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hrbrmstr\/status\/1343622147772735488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Final teaser for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rstats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rstats<\/a> R-in-Swift (SwiftR) since I _think_ I&#39;ve \u274c&#39;d all memory leaks and refined the example project. The displayed 10,\u2026 numbers come right from sample()&#39;d R vector and the fill color live refreshes fast b\/c {magick} is magical. Shld have repo up Thu. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/boGa5ej9FZ\">pic.twitter.com\/boGa5ej9FZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Caliban&#39;s War (@hrbrmstr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hrbrmstr\/status\/1344036731855769600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>of some almost-natural &#8220;R&#8221; looking code (this is a snippet):<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-swift\">Button(\"Run\") {\n  do { \/\/ calls to R can fail so there are lots of \"try\"s; poking at less ugly alternatives\n\n    \/\/ handling dots in named calls is a WIP\n    _  = try R.evalParse(\"options(tidyverse.quiet = TRUE )\")\n\n    \/\/ in practice this wld be called once in a model\n    try R.library(\"ggplot2\")\n    try R.library(\"hrbrthemes\")\n    try R.library(\"magick\")\n\n    \/\/ can mix initialiation of an R list with Swift and R objects\n    let mvals: RObject = [\n      \"month\": [ \"Jan\", \"Feb\", \"Mar\", \"Apr\", \"May\", \"Jun\" ],\n      \"value\": try R.sample(100, 6)\n    ]\n\n    \/\/ ggplot2! `mvals` is above, `col.hexValue` comes from the color picker\n    \/\/ can't do R.as.data.frame b\/c \"dots\" so this is a deliberately exposed alternate call\n    let gg = try R.ggplot(R.as_data_frame(mvals)) +\n      R.geom_col(R.aes_string(\"month\", \"value\"), fill: col.hexValue) + \/\/ supports both [un]named\n      R.scale_y_comma() +\n      R.labs(\n        x: rNULL, y: \"# things\",\n        title: \"Monthly Bars\"\n      ) +\n      R.theme_ipsum_gs(grid: \"Y\")\n\n    \/\/ an alternative to {magick} could be getting raw SVG from {svglite} device\n    \/\/ we get Image view width\/height and pass that to {magick}\n    \/\/ either beats disk\/ssd round-trip\n    let fig = try R.image_graph(\n      width: Double(imageRect.width), \n      height: Double(imageRect.height), \n      res: 144\n    )\n\n    try R.print(gg)\n    _ = R.dev_off() \/\/ can't do R.dev.off b\/c \"dots\" so this is a deliberately exposed alternate call\n\n    let res = try R.image_write(fig, path: rNULL, format: \"png\")\n\n    imgData = Data(res) \/\/ \"imgData\" is a reactive SwiftUI bound object; when it changes Image does too\n\n  } catch {\n  }\n\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>that works in Swift as part of a SwiftUI app that displays a ggplot2 plot inside of a macOS application.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t shell out to R, but uses Swift 5&#8217;s native abilities to interface with R&#8217;s C interface.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not ready to reveal that SwiftR code\/library just yet (break&#8217;s over and the core bits still need some tweaking) but I <em>can<\/em> provide some interim resources with an online book about working with R&#8217;s C interface from Swift on macOS. It is uninspiringly called <a href=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/books\/swiftr\/\">SwiftR \u2014 Using R from Swift<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are, at present, six chapters that introduce the Swift+R concepts via command line apps. 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