had some experience in the past shelling out to @U04V15CAJ's https://github.com/borkdude/jet for that • Jet can convert EDN to JSON • then you can use R's jsonlite package to turn that into R data structures

found the old tweet about it: https://twitter.com/daslu_/status/1208708867074473985

thank you for that. My motivation though, is to use edn instead of json. I will keep looking, but if such a package does not exist, I might write one.

btw, jet is pretty great!

wondering if it's worth being a needed dependency though

nice. so you'd like to reproduce what jsonlite does, but with EDN instead of JSON? (at least in one direction, EDN->R, while possibly not needing the other direction?)

you may find this paper by Jeroen Oooms useful, quite detailed and thoughtful in sharing their design decisions and challenges: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.2805.pdf

one possible shortcut would be to pass through JSON format: EDN->JSON->R. probably that would be the easy way. if you need to avoid Jet for some reason, then maybe you would like to call Clojure from R. here is an example project demonstrating that: https://github.com/scicloj/tutorials/tree/master/interop/calling-clojure-from-R (but that would introduce other dependencies, such as rJava)

https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C0BQDEJ8M/p1676407176192149?thread_ts=1676358123.507639&cid=C0BQDEJ8M The idea is to make it easy for R users to rely on EDN files.

Sounds wonderful