[R] Taking inputs from the user

[Greg Snow]

Are your users willing to install an Excel plug-in?  If so, look at the RExcel project, it does what you describe and the common user thinks they are just using Excel with a plug-in without realizing that they have installed and are using a useful tool in the background.

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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Verma, Ankur
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 12:11 AM
To: 'jim holtman'
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Taking inputs from the user

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your response. I was actually thinking in terms of an executable file which could return the output back to an excel sheet. I was thinking of having a small script/executable which would read an excel file get the values... Run the model....get the prediction.... and return the values back to the excel. 

But am also interested in the solution you were talking about wherein we setup a central server etc.

By the way I'm using Windows XP.

Regards,
Ankur 

-----Original Message-----
From: jim holtman [mailto:jholtman at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:44 PM
To: Verma, Ankur
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Taking inputs from the user

Give them an Excel spreadsheet that they can fill in the values.  They can then send the spreadsheet to you can you can have your R script read the information from it and send it back.  You did not mention how they are supposed to"get the output".  Do you want to setup a central server that can receive the email, run the script and then send back the results?

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Verma, Ankur <ankur.verma at genpact.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently a new user in R and was working on the randomForest package. I am trying to predict price points using this statistical package. The issue is that I need to setup a tool so that I can give it to Sales Executive who can plug in the necessary variables and get the output. Is there a way to do that ?? They don't have R on their systems and I doubt they are going to install it.
>
> Need urgent help on this.
>
> Thanks,
> Ankur
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Jim Holtman
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
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