[Rcpp-devel] Review request: Sandboxed R integration via RInside

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 20 November 2014 at 14:58, Christian Authmann wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| I've developed a solution to integrate R into an application in a safer 
| way than the direct integration provided by RInside. It is conceptually 
| similar to RServe: the application does not link to R, but communicates 
| with a different process where R is running. Securing the separate 
| process is much easier.
| 
| Unlike RServe, my solution has the full power of Rcpp/RInside: one can 
| communicate custom data types, and one can even allow the R code to call 
| back into provided C++ functions.
| 
| I've made a pull request, but the code is complex enough to need a few 
| more eyes before merging. Please read and comment, either on github or 
| via email!

Given that I saw it first via the pull request, I started commented at the
pull request and wrote (after two more edits):

   About to leave town for a few days of workshopping so may not get to it "soon".

   Couple of really quick first comments:

   * Keeping it in examples/ is a good idea, it won't break anything
   * On the other hand, "nobody sees it" that way. Just for argument's sake,
     should it be a separate project? "RProccessInside" or "RInside2" or
     something? Or move up into RInside? 
   * All my code (or at least the code that matters) is GPL-2. If you stick
     it in here, I am not sure your BSD headers matter. It may just became
     GPL-2 as the whole aggregate does anyway as all of R, Rcpp and RInside
     are GPL-2 so why not make matters simpler and convert this to GPL-2 as
     well? 

  All that said, I do of course love a nice and well put-together pull
  request. And as it does not harm, I'm happy to take it. I was just
  wondering how to best give it more exposure... 

We can keep the discussion "here" or "there" -- whatever works best.  Maybe
"conceptual" comments here and code nitpicking on GH?

RInside "plus forking a la RServe plus process separation" is a potentially
rather useful idea.  Nice work!

Dirk
 
| If you cannot comment on the code, but think this could be useful for 
| you, please let me know.
| 
| https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rinside/pull/8
| 
| 
| Thanks!
| Christian
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