rgrpc: Asynchronous 'gRPC' Client and Server Runtime

A first-class asynchronous 'gRPC' <https://grpc.io/> runtime built on the generic asynchronous 'C++' API ('GenericStub', 'AsyncGenericService') <https://grpc.github.io/grpc/cpp/>. Requests and responses cross the native boundary as method names plus opaque byte buffers; 'RProtoBuf' supplies and consumes the bytes, so schemas are loaded at runtime and no generated service stubs are required. Native completion threads never call the R API: completions are queued natively and delivered in batches on the R main thread. Complements 'RProtoBuf' rather than replacing it. Links against the system 'gRPC' library for 'C++'.

Version:	0.1.1
Depends:	R (≥ 4.3.0)
Imports:	methods
Suggests:	RProtoBuf, tinytest
Published:	2026-09-17
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.rgrpc
Author:	Troy Hernandez [aut, cre], cornball.ai [cph]
Maintainer:	Troy Hernandez <troy at cornball.ai>
BugReports:	https://github.com/cornball-ai/rgrpc/issues
License:	Apache License (≥ 2)
URL:	https://github.com/cornball-ai/rgrpc
NeedsCompilation:	yes
SystemRequirements:	gRPC C++ and protobuf libraries with development headers, found via 'pkg-config grpc++ protobuf' (Ubuntu/Debian: 'libgrpc++-dev', 'libprotobuf-dev'; on Windows both ship with Rtools 4.3 and later).
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	rgrpc results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

rgrpc.html , rgrpc.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	rgrpc_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: rgrpc_0.1.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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