[R] Accessing R as a Web service (UNCLASSIFIED)

Martin Morgan mtmorgan at fhcrc.org
Sat Jan 31 05:52:59 CET 2009


"Neiderer, Andrew (Civ, ARL/CISD)" <neiderer at arl.army.mil> writes:

> Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED 
> Caveats: NONE
>  
> I am new to R and somewhat to Web server programming.  
> I am a Java programmer, however, and have done quite a bit with X3D
> (extensible 3D) computer graphics.
>
> A statistician that I work with is doing multidimensional scaling (MDS) and
> provides some x,y,z's which I display using X3D.
> Currently he is using Permap which more than gets the job done but is
> written in Visual Basic (I believe).  I think it would be a big job to use
> Permap as a Web service.  So I am looking at R (for other reasons as well).
>
> My question is -
> Can I access R via SOAP, e.g., running on a server.  Assuming I worded my
> question correctly and someone understands my question, please provide URLs
> . so I can get knowledgeable.

See RWebServices, which allows construction of SOAP-based web service
wrappers around R. Martin

> Thank you.
>
> - Andrew M. Neiderer
>
>  
> Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED 
> Caveats: NONE
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