Package 'QuickJSR'

Title: Interface for the 'QuickJS' Lightweight 'JavaScript' Engine
Description: An 'R' interface to the 'QuickJS' portable 'JavaScript' engine. The engine and all 'R' to 'JavaScript' interoperability is bundled within the package, requiring no dependencies beyond a 'C' compiler.
Authors: Andrew R. Johnson [aut, cre] , Fabrice Bellard [cph] (Author of QuickJS sources and headers), Charlie Gordon [cph] (Author of QuickJS sources and headers), QuickJS-NG Authors [cph] (QuickJS-NG sources and headers)
Maintainer: Andrew R. Johnson <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 1.4.0
Built: 2024-11-02 06:14:36 UTC
Source: https://github.com/andrjohns/QuickJSR

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The QuickJSR package.

Description

An interface to the QuickJS lightweight Javascript engine

Author(s)

Maintainer: Andrew R. Johnson [email protected] (ORCID)

Other contributors:

  • Fabrice Bellard (Author of QuickJS sources and headers) [copyright holder]

  • Charlie Gordon (Author of QuickJS sources and headers) [copyright holder]

See Also

Useful links:


cxxflags

Description

Function for returning the C/C++ flags needed for compilation using the package's headers

Usage

cxxflags(to_console = FALSE)

Arguments

to_console

Whether the result should be returned as a string

Value

Character string of CXX flags, or print flags to console and invisibly return NULL (for use in package Makevars or similar)


from_json

Description

Use the QuickJS C API to convert a JSON string to an R object

Usage

from_json(json)

Arguments

json

JSON string to convert to an R object

Value

R object


JSContext object

Description

An initialised context within which to evaluate Javascript scripts or commands.

Usage

JSContext

Format

An object of class list of length 1.

Value

A JSContext object containing an initialised JavaScript context for evaluating scripts/commands


Assign a value to a variable in the current context

Description

Assign a value to a variable in the current context

Usage

assign(var_name, value)

Arguments

var_name

The name of the variable to assign

value

The value to assign to the variable

Format

An object of class NULL of length 0.

Value

No return value, called for side effects

Examples

## Not run: 
ctx <- JSContext$new()
ctx$assign("a", 1)
ctx$get("a")

## End(Not run)

Call a JS function in the current context

Description

Call a specified function in the JavaScript context with the provided arguments.

Usage

call(function_name, ...)

Arguments

function_name

The function to be called

...

The arguments to be passed to the function

Format

An object of class NULL of length 0.

Value

The result of calling the specified function

Examples

## Not run: 
ctx <- JSContext$new()
ctx$source(code = "function add(a, b) { return a + b; }")
ctx$call("add", 1, 2)

## End(Not run)

Get a variable from the current context

Description

Get the value of a variable from the current context

Usage

get(var_name)

Arguments

var_name

The name of the variable to retrieve

Format

An object of class NULL of length 0.

Value

The value of the variable

Examples

## Not run: 
ctx <- JSContext$new()
ctx$source(code = "var a = 1;")
ctx$get("a")

## End(Not run)

Evaluate JS string or file in the current context

Description

Evaluate a provided JavaScript file or string within the initialised context. Note that this method should only be used for initialising functions or values within the context, no values are returned from this function. See the ⁠$call()⁠ method for returning values.

Usage

source(file = NULL, code = NULL)

Arguments

file

A path to the JavaScript file to load

code

A single string of JavaScript to evaluate

Format

An object of class NULL of length 0.

Value

No return value, called for side effects

Examples

## Not run: 
ctx <- JSContext$new()
ctx$source(file = "path/to/file.js")
ctx$source(code = "1 + 2")

## End(Not run)

Assess validity of JS code without evaluating

Description

Checks whether JS code string is valid code in the current context

Usage

validate(code_string)

Arguments

code_string

The JS code to check

Format

An object of class NULL of length 0.

Value

A boolean indicating whether code is valid

Examples

## Not run: 
ctx <- JSContext$new()
ctx$validate("1 + 2")

## End(Not run)

ldflags

Description

Function for returning the flags needed for linking to the package

Usage

ldflags(to_console = FALSE)

Arguments

to_console

Whether the result should be returned as a string

Value

Character string of linker flags, or print flags to console and invisibly return NULL (for use in package Makevars or similar)


qjs_eval

Description

Evaluate a single Javascript expression.

Usage

qjs_eval(eval_string)

Arguments

eval_string

A single string of the expression to evaluate

Value

The result of the provided expression

Examples

# Return the sum of two numbers:
qjs_eval("1 + 2")

# Concatenate strings:
qjs_eval("'1' + '2'")

# Create lists from objects:
qjs_eval("var t = {'a' : 1, 'b' : 2}; t")

Get the version of the bundled QuickJS library

Description

Get the version of the bundled QuickJS library

Usage

quickjs_version()

Value

Character string of the version of the bundled QuickJS library


to_json

Description

Use the QuickJS C API to convert an R object to a JSON string

Usage

to_json(arg, auto_unbox = FALSE)

Arguments

arg

Argument to convert to JSON

auto_unbox

Automatically unbox single element vectors

Value

JSON string