[Rd] Passing R code from webpage

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:24 AM, Matevz Pavlic wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> i think all of this i kinda complicated, even though in all the packages
> authors  are saying that "minimum code is required". 
> I mean, i am not an IT engineer , but i have created quite some webpages, so
> i have some knowledge of HTML5, CSS, C# (limited), and also work quite a lot
> with R and still installing R to run as a webserver seems to be too
> complicated. 

Not at all - R has a built-in webserver (it's used for the help pages), so if you install R, you're done with that part. Rook gives you a wrapper for that.

The problem is it doesn't scale, so if you're happy with one-user solution then you can use R without anything. If you need something that scales, then you need something else -- and for Windows you're a bit out of luck, because the lack of fork+COW on Windows (BTW cygwin doesn't help there, either) paired with the fact that R is not thread-safe means it's quite hard to get scalability on Windows involving R. The best bet on Windows are server solutions that keep a pool of individual R instances as workers but I'm not aware of any off the top of my head (I recall some Java solutions way back when Java was hip and I have it on my ToDo list for Rserve but it's not there yet).


> I have look in all packages i can imaggine, Rook, ggoleVis, Shiny....but in
> all i get the problem when i want to connect to a MS SQL database.
> 

That shouldn't really matter - as long as you can connect from any R session, you will be able to connect through R from the webserver.


> This is the workflow that i'd like to achieve : 
> 1.) in webrowser connect to MS SQL database

I assume you mean from the R script? Otherwise you'll have to shove the data across (not impossible but why not connect from R?).


> 2.) do some R statistics and plots
> 3.) show that in web browser.
> 
> 
> I am pretty sure it can be very complicated, but it just seems so.
> 
> any help (still) greatly appreciated.
> 
> BTW: I HAVE posted in R-help, but no responses were given.
> m
> 
> regards, m
> 
> 
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