This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at:
Plumber: Turning your R code into an API
https://www.rstudio.com/resources/videos/plumber-turning-your-r-code-into-an-api/
In recent years, web APIs have become the common language between various programming languages and technologies. Plumber is an open-source package that enables you to create a web API out of your existing R code by merely adding some special comments to your functions. This allows you to leverage R from systems written in other languages.
Plumber: turning your R code into an API, Jeff Allen
Jeff Allen - Software Engineer, RStudio
Jeff’s background is in Computer Science and bioinformatics; it was there that he first encountered R in 2007. After spending many years as an RStudio user and evangelist, he joined RStudio in 2013.