# R transforms

With R transforms in Foundry, you can use the [Code Workspace RStudio® Workbench](../../code-workspaces/rstudio/index.md) to write and publish data transformations in the R language and access R libraries.

R transforms use a different execution mode and provide different APIs compared to other transform languages supported in Foundry. Specifically, R transforms execute on a single node and do not leverage Spark for data reads and writes.

R transforms support reading and writing both structured (tabular) and unstructured datasets using the [Palantir R SDK ↗](https://github.com/palantir/palantir-r-sdk) and importing R libraries from CRAN, Posit™ Package Manager, and Bioconductor.

[Get started writing R transforms in Foundry.](../getting-started/index.md)

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