elixir4r (WIP)

The package provides R interface to elixir

Installation

You can install the development version of elixir4r via:

devtools::install_github("enixam/elixir4r")

First load the package

library(elixir4r)

Evaluate inline elixir code

ex_eval("
defmodule Test do
  def main, do: IO.puts(:ok)
end 

Test.main()
")

#> [1] "ok"

Run .exs script

code <- "IO.write(['hello ', 'R'])"
tmp <- tempfile()
cat(code, file = tmp)
ex_run(tmp)

#> [1] "hello R"

After library, elixir4r will register a custom knitr engine elixir.

Insert an elixir chunk

```{elixir}
{{year, month, day}, {hour, _, _}} = :calendar.local_time()
IO.puts("hello world from #{year}/#{month}/#{day} #{hour} o'clock") 
```

This yields

#> hello world from 2022/1/5 18 o'clock

The last line of the code block gets automatically printed by IO.inspect

m = %{name: "elixir", creator: "José Valim", status: :nice}
m

#> %{creator: "José Valim", name: "elixir", status: :nice}