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Updated FAQ for R UMAP implementations
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lmcinnes authored May 3, 2019
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Smallvis only works for small datasets, but provides
much greater flexibility and control.

Is the support for the R language?
Is there support for the R language?
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Yes! A number of people have worked hard to make UMAP
available to R users.

If you want to use the reference
implementation under the hood but want a nice R interface
the we recommend `umapr <https://github.com/ropenscilabs/umapr>`_
which wraps the python code with reticulate.

If you want a pure R version then there are a couple
of options: `UMAP <https://github.com/tkonopka/umap>`_
and `UWOT <https://github.com/jlmelville/uwot>`_. Both are good
reimplementations of UMAP in R. If performance is
a major factor we recommend UWOT at this time.
then we recommend `umap <https://github.com/tkonopka/umap>`_,
which wraps the python code with
`reticulate <https://rstudio.github.io/reticulate/>`_.
Another reticulate interface is
`umapr <https://github.com/ropenscilabs/umapr>`_, but it
may not be under active development.

If you want a pure R version then we recommend
`uwot <https://github.com/jlmelville/uwot>`_ at this time.
`umap <https://github.com/tkonopka/umap>`_ also provides
a pure R implementation in addition to its reticulate
wrapper.

Both umap and uwot are available on CRAN.

Is there a C/C++ implementation?
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