Hey dagster team Quick question are there any future plans o

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Hey dagster team Quick question are there any future plans of being able to run R code within a solid My team has historically written scripts in R which they are reluctant to translate to python code

max · Answer

you can run R scripts from a solid e g using `dagster shell`

max · Answer

there isn t currently a framework that would make the dagster context available in R let you yield events from R code etc

max · Answer

we definitely want to make sure that kind of integration is feasible

max · Answer

but it hasn t been built yet though definitely very happy to support any effort to actually implement it

jonathan · Answer

Thanks Max What would be the process of implementing it I ve never really contributed to an open source project before but would be open to the idea

max · Answer

the thing we have that s closest to this is the integration with jupyter notebooks `dagstermill` although both sides of the interface are in python we do pass a dagster context across a process boundary to a process we don t directly control the jupyter kernel

max · Answer

maybe we could chat sometime about some of the complexities involved i have written R professionally but it was a long time ago but would def be interested in helping out

max · Answer

there might be clever ways to do this depending on what your team is willing to do

max · Answer

for instance people seem to have figured out how to embed R code within jupyter notebooks <https rpy2 github io doc latest html interactive html rmagic>

max · Answer

might also be able to build on <https rpy2 github io >

jonathan · Answer

Yes rpy2 might be a good option I ll look into it

John Mav · Answer

I raised an issue a while ago for an R Execution env <https github com dagster io dagster issues 2624> Not sure about the feasibility shrug skin tone 2 but maybe something that could be implemented in the futrue