# (side to side) translation of R code into Julia

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/side-to-side-translation-of-r-code-into-julia/8711
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [January 31, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/side-to-side-translation-of-r-code-into-julia/8711 "2018-01-31T09:05:20Z")
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### Author: ![Federico\_Calboli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Federico\_Calboli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Federico_Calboli)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/side-to-side-translation-of-r-code-into-julia/8711/1 "2018-01-31T09:05:21Z")

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Hi All, on a whim I googled ‘translate Matlab code in Julia’, and I got this page:

> **[MATLAB to Julia translator | MATLAB to Julia converter](http://sciencecow.mit.edu/matlab-to-julia/)**
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> Convenient online tool automatically translates MATLAB source code into Julia, so you can move on to the more interesting task of parallelizing your code.

which provides a side to side translation. I code in R a lot, so I was wondering whether there is a similar thing for R to Julia (if so it is not immediately and trivially found by Google) – I am sure it would considerably speed up my learning of Julia.

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### Author: ![xiaodai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/xiaodai/32/15937_2.png) [@xiaodai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaodai)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 9:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/side-to-side-translation-of-r-code-into-julia/8711/2 "2018-01-31T09:48:53Z")

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[Comparing Julia and R's Vocabularies · John Myles White](http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2012/04/09/comparing-julia-and-rs-vocabularies/) for vocab

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### Author: ![Federico\_Calboli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Federico\_Calboli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Federico_Calboli)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 9:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/side-to-side-translation-of-r-code-into-julia/8711/3 "2018-01-31T09:52:24Z")

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Cheers – I was actually aware of that. It does give some static idea of what to do, but it pretty different from writing a piece of code which does something that I specifically have in mind and then seeing how I’d have to write the same code in Julia.