.NET 5 Support by AndrewIOM · Pull Request #210 · fslaborg/RProvider · GitHub

I have been working to get the RProvider running on .NET5 using the dotnet sdk.

To get RProvider to work, I had to update the following:

• Migrate all projects to the new SDK format.
• Migrate to FAKE5 for build script.
• Move paket to use the dotnet tool.
• Update to fsdocs for the documentation website.
• Remove Remoting between server and client processes, and replace with an implementation based on System.IO.Pipes. I have used another helper library to achieve this (PipeMethodCalls).
• Update associated libraries (e.g. test libraries).

I have tested this implementation using both the .NET 5 and .NET 6 preview 7 SDKs, with all tests passing and sample scripts working as expected. This is on macOS 11 Big Sur on both an Intel mac and M1 mac. I have tested against the latest R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10) -- "Kick Things"

There was a small change required to the PipeMethodCalls library, but I was unsure if this is something that can be addressed in RProvider. Essentially, there is an issue with reflection where I needed to use GetRuntimeMethods rather than GetMethods to discover the interface's methods.

NB The only prerequisite to run is that R_HOME environment variable is set.

Addresses issues #188.
Follows discussion in #209