R--

An interpreter for R in C++.

About

This repository contains a toy implementation of an interpreter for R written in C++. The project is mainly to understand how interpreters, lexers/tokenizers, parsers, ASTs and things like that work exactly. Since R and C++ are the greatest languages of all time, I chose to try it on these. However the lexer of course can translate to any language. So far the interpreter can do:

• basic arithmetic,
• functions,
• data-structures,
• clauses,
• loops.

Installation and Usage

Clone/download the project and run:

meson build . && ninja -C build
./build/src/R--

This of course requires you to have meson which you cat get from conda-forge or pip.

Author

Simon Dirmeier simon.dirmeier@web.de