FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 19.3.0

FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.5.1, reuses the base packages of GNU R and 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/

Changes in 19.3.0:

• FastR has been updated to R version 3.6.1.
• In this release, FastR does not ship with GCC runtime libraries. Use the following commands to install the necessary dependencies:
  • Ubuntu 18.04 and 19.04: apt-get install libgfortran3 libgomp1
  • Oracle Linux 7: yum install libgfortran libgomp
  • Oracle Linux 8: yum install compat-libgfortran-48
  • MacOS: brew install gcc@4.9
• Preview of support for LLVM based execution of R native extensions.
  • FastR is configured to use the GraalVM LLVM toolchain to compile the C/C++ and Fortran code of R packages. The resulting binaries will contain both the native code and the LLVM bitcode. The R packages that are shipped with FastR were also compiled using the GraalVM LLVM toolchain and their binaries contain the LLVM bitcode.
  • FastR loads and runs the R extensions native code by default, but when run with the option --R.BackEnd=llvm, it will load and run the LLVM bitcode if available. You can use the LLVM backend selectively for specific R packages via --R.BackEndLLVM=pkg1,pkg2.
  • If you encounter any issues when installing R packages, you can switch back from the GraalVM LLVM toolchain to the native toolchain by running fastr.setToolchain("native") or by manually editing the $FASTR_HOME/etc/Makeconf file.
• Fixed memory leaks reported on GitHub.
• Fixed failures when working with large vectors (>1GB).
• Implemented grepRaw, but only for fixed=T.

We encourage the users to experiment with the new LLVM support and report any issues. To see the complete list of changes, please refer to the project changelog.

FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 19.2.1

FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.5.1, reuses the base packages of GNU R and 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/

Changes in 19.2.1:
Updated to use GraalVM 19.2.1 release. The general GraalVM 19.2.1 release notes are available on the the graalvm.org website.

FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 19.2.0.1

FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.5.1, reuses the base packages of GNU R and 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/

Changes in 19.2.0.1:
Updated to use GraalVM 19.2.0.1 release. The general GraalVM 19.2.0.1 release notes are available on the graalvm.org website.

FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 19.2.0

FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.5.1, reuses the base packages of GNU R and 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/

Changes in 19.2.0 can be found in the changelog: https://github.com/oracle/fastr/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1920. The general GraalVM 19.2.0 release notes are available on the graalvm.org website.

FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 19.2.0-dev-b01

This is a preview release for 19.2 and we recommend testing it for all users.

FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 19.1.1

FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.5.1, reuses the base packages of GNU R and 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/

FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 19.1.0

FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.5.1, reuses the base packages of GNU R and 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/

Changes in 19.1.0: (release notes: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/release-notes/)

New features:

• is.function returns true for foreign executables
• better error message when FastR cannot find its home directory

Bug fixes:

• strings '-Inf', '+NaN', and '-NaN' are correctly parsed to doubles including ignoring leading and trailing whitespace
• avoid unhandled exceptions in dev.set #76
• for loop creates and initializes the control variable even if there are no iterations #77
• update the output of the capabilities builtin #78

FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 19.0.2

FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.5.1, reuses the base packages of GNU R and 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/

Changes in 19.0.2:

• Updated to the latest GraalVM version

FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 19.0.0

FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.5.1, reuses the base packages of GNU R and 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/

Changes in 19.0.0:

• the default Renviron file sets R_LIBS_USER to a directory inside the current user's home. Running the configure_fastr script will change this to a path that also contains GraalVM version and will create the directory
• Bugfix: fatal error on Linux when pressing CTRL+C during long computation
• Implemented missing C API: S_realloc

FastR - GraalVM Community Edition 1.0 RC16

FastR is a GNU R compatible implementation of R for GraalVM. It is currently based on R 3.5.1, reuses the base packages of GNU R and 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/

Bug fixes in RC16:

• match worked incorrectly with descending sequences (e.g., 3:1)
• match did not handle descending sequences properly (e.g. match(1:3, 3:1))
• lexer allows any "letter" in identifiers including, e.g., Japanese, which matches GNU-R behavior