R bindings?

[multimeric]

Hi, this project looks super valuable. Are you interested in the contribution of R bindings via extendr (which I am a contributor to).

[kaizhang]

@multimeric I'm not familiar with writing R bindings. This is outside my expertise.

[multimeric]

I'm offering to write them myself, I'm just asking if you would be happy to have them in this repo or if they would have to live elsewhere.

[kaizhang]

@multimeric Thanks for doing this! In that case, I think R bindings should live in its own repo. I don't have a preference for where it should be. But please note that the Rust APIs are subject to heavy changes as they are not mature.

[multimeric]

Ah okay. Would you advise waiting for the APIs to stabilize, or perhaps focusing on a more stable subset of functions?

[kaizhang]

The APIs listed here are fairly stable: https://github.com/kaizhang/anndata-rs/blob/main/anndata/src/traits.rs. If you want to start, then sticking with these APIs is probably a good idea.

[multimeric]

Thanks, that's super helpful. I might hold off until layers are implemented (#4 (comment)), because they're important for my use case.