new package CGIwithR

David Firth david.firth at nuffield.oxford.ac.uk
Tue Oct 29 12:19:48 CET 2002


A package "CGIwithR" is now available at CRAN.  It
is designed to allow R to be used as a CGI scripting
language on Unix-like systems (including Mac OS X with
the Darwin installation of R).

Why bother?  Well, CGIwithR is provided in case there are others
like myself who either
   (i) wish to provide a special-purpose calculator on the web
       which uses R for its computation
or
  (ii) wish to collect/process information via web forms,
       but don't want to learn a new language such as Perl

A user manual is provided with the package (as well as the
standard R help pages).

CGIwithR has not been tested on systems other than my own,
so I would very much welcome reports on any successes or
failures with it.

If someone wants to port it to Windows...

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