Hi Felix,

thanks for all the information there's plently of food for thought for me to
chew through.

Chibisi

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:36 PM, drflxms <drflxms@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello Chibisi,
>
> you might be looking for something like "Rpad"
> (http://www.rpad.org/Rpad/). There are some other systems like
> SNetscape, Rserve, RSOAP, R.NET.Web as well. Unfortunately I have no
> personal experience with these systems so far, so I can't give you any
> real advice. I just know them to exist and surfed some testpages.
>
> To me Rpad looks as probably the most feasible system for the task you
> describe (and from a cost vs. benefit point of view) . As far as I
> understand/remember users need no unusual prerequisites to use Rpad.
>
> For a general overview of GUIs see i.e. http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/.
>
> According to your latest description of the database associated with the
> webpage, SQlite probably will suffice and might be easier to handle than
> a whole MySQL server - as Hadley Wickham already proposed in his e-mail.
> But this all of course depends on your resources as well (i.e. do you
> have access to your own root-server, or just some megabytes of ordinary
> webspace...?).
>
> Kind regards and greetings from Munich,
> Felix.
>
> Chibisi Chima-Okereke schrieb:
> > Dear Felix,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply,
> >
> > If you haven't already guessed I am new to web programming.
> >
> > The sort of webpage I want to build is one that presents quantitative
> > information in graphs and charts, that people can interact with, e.g.
> > select parts of charts to zoom into, highlight values, click buttons
> > to do analysis on the data displayed, so yes some sort of interactive
> > GUI. I initially thought of using flash as a front end but I don't
> > know any actionscript, so learning that would to a suitable standard
> > take alot of extra time, and I think it would be best if everything
> > could be done in R as much as possible.
> >
> > If I used an RGUI I guess I would be using the playwith package? Do
> > the consumers of the website need to have R to consume stuff displayed
> > with an RGUI?
> >
> > The database itself would just be pretty static just being queried for
> > information, unless some analysis was required in which case R would
> > query the database do the analysis and write the analysis back to the
> > database (I guessing that is the way it would be done), before it gets
> > displayed on the web page.
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Chibisi
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:39 AM, drflxms <drflxms@googlemail.com
> > <mailto:drflxms@googlemail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello Chibisi,
> >
> >     I am not shore whether I completely understand your needs: Do you
> want
> >     to build a webpage which relies on a content management system
> >     (cms)? Do
> >     you want to collect data (i.e. survey) which later on shall be
> >     analysed
> >     using R? Or shall it be a webpage with an interactive R GUI? What
> >     else?
> >
> >     But personally I would prefer MySQL as backend for websites, as most
> >     professional (opensource) cms (i.e. typo3, wordpress etc.) are
> created
> >     with MySQL in mind.
> >     There is a good interface between R and MySQL called RMySQL as well.
> I
> >     use this on a daily basis, as all my data is stored in a local MySQL
> >     database (more flexible than always reading in text files - at
> >     least in
> >     my opinion).
> >
> >     Hope this personal view might help a little bit.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Felix
> >
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