Hi all,

I need your opinion about using R-Rapache to build a knowlegde base to
bioinformatics field.

I have copious amount of genotype information (some few million records)
and would like to store it in MySQL database. Then, using RMySQL connector
I would like to use it for further analysis using R over a web interface.
The web interface which I am thnking off, just does not serve the purose of
statistical analysis, it should also serve as displaying data in grids and
interactive maps etc on web interface.

I had thought of doing the same using python-MySQLdb to store data and then
R-rpy for further statistical analysis. But as R is now directly made to
work on web I am very much excited about RApache project. Very recently I
was introducing Rapache project and concept of building knowledge base
using Rapache-R-MySQL combination to our team memebrs, Unfortunately few
memebers were not that happy with using R directly in middle tier. There
were serious comments about R that it is slow and generating plots on the
fly wont be too fast. there was also discussion about maturity of RMySQL
database connector, i mean fastness of querying MySQL will vary
significantly with RMySQL when campared to MySQLdb connector?

It would be nice if you give me a detailed opinion on this.

Thanking you all in anticipation.

Regards,
mlsc

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