luajr-package {luajr}

luajr: LuaJIT Scripting

Description

'luajr' provides an interface to LuaJIT, a just-in-time compiler for the Lua scripting language. It allows users to run Lua code from R.

The R API

• lua(): run Lua code

• lua_func(): make a Lua function callable from R

• lua_shell(): run an interactive Lua shell

• lua_open(): create a new Lua state

• lua_reset(): reset the default Lua state

• lua_parallel(): run Lua code in parallel

Further reading

For an introduction to 'luajr', see vignette("luajr")

Author(s)

Maintainer: Nicholas Davies [e-mail] (ORCID) (Author of the R package wrapper) [contributor, copyright holder]

Authors:

• Mike Pall (Author of the embedded LuaJIT compiler) [copyright holder]

Other contributors:

• Lua.org, PUC-Rio (Copyright holders over portions of Lua source code included in LuaJIT) [copyright holder]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/nicholasdavies/luajr

• https://nicholasdavies.github.io/luajr/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/nicholasdavies/luajr/issues