The 'rkafkajars' package collects all the external jars required for the 'rkafka' package. These external jars are quite large in size (12MB) and have a slow release cycle. By separating the Java and R development, the storage footprint on CRAN is reduced. By using the 'rJava' package that links R and Java, we can use the excellent work already done by the folks and provide the functionality of using 'KAFKA' in R
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