Request for R bindings

[ivokwee]

Hi. I would love to see an R binding/wrapper to use your code from R. Is that possible/planned?

[DavidMChan]

This is not currently a planned feature, however it certainly seems possible. You might consider looking at the file: https://github.com/CannyLab/tsne-cuda/blob/master/src/ext/pymodule_ext.cu, which is exposed in the library as a binding method for python, and could easily be adapted for R.

[fabien-w]

An alternative solution for R is to run Python inside R with the reticulate package.
Like this for example :

library(reticulate)
use_python("/home/fabien/anaconda2/bin/python")
py_config()
py_module_available("faiss")
py_module_available("tsnecuda")

for the test example of tsnecuda

repl_python()
from tsnecuda import TSNE
import numpy as np
X = np.random.random((5000, 50))
TSNE(verbose=1).fit_transform(X)
exit