TL;DR: I’m curating a list of CRAN R packages that use Rust: https://github.com/nanxstats/r-rust-pkgs. Dirt bike. Photo by POWERING OFFROAD. Rust in R packages Rust has been the most admired programming language for nearly a decade. CRAN, the largest public repository for R packages, has also supported integrating Rust in R packages for several years. What’s the magic behind the language? To me, Rust is a great choice for writing high-performance extensions for both R and Python, offering memory safety and a strong …