Installation¶

Requirements¶

Python ≥ 3.11
R installed and Rscript on your PATH

Windows

R 4.2+ (UCRT build) is required on Windows for correct UTF-8 handling. Older MSVCRT builds lack system-level UTF-8 support.

Install r_bridge¶

Current version: 0.8.0

pip install r-bridge

R dependency: jsonlite¶

r_bridge requires the jsonlite R package for JSON serialisation. It is pre-installed in most R distributions. If it is missing, r_bridge will attempt to install it automatically on first startup. You can also install it manually:

install.packages("jsonlite")

Verify the installation¶

from r_bridge import RBridge

with RBridge() as r:
    print(r.ping())   # prints round-trip latency in seconds