Rripser is an interface to directly call ripser from R. See also TDAstats for a more recent R interface to ripser that includes some additional tools for the analysis of persistence diagrams.
To install the latest development version from github:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("blasern/Rripser")
If you find issues, please let me know. If you would like to contribute, please create a pull request.