FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 1.0 RC6

FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.4.0, reuses the base packages of GNU R is compatible with the ecosystem.

For example, FastR can install and run unmodified complex R packages like ggplot2, Shiny, or Rcpp, for compatibility with other packages please refer to the compatibility checker: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/compatibility/.

Being implemented on top of GraalVM, FastR uses its state-of-the-art JIT compiler and has better peak performance, often several times faster than GNU R.

The R language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/r/

New features

• Support for reading/writing graphical parameters via par
  • in preparation for full graphics package support

Added missing R builtins and C API

• 'get' builtin supports the 'envir' argument
• 'inspect' internal
• SETLEVELS
• Rf_isObject
• SET_ENCLOS
• R_nchar
• R_forceAndCall

Bugfixes

• support for formulas that include '...'
• updating attributes of NULL produces empty list with given attributes
• treat CR/LF in readLine like GNU-R
• fix in La_chol (incorrect pivot attribute in return)
• various fixes in vector coercion code to produce GNU-R compatible warnings and errors