[R-sig-Geo] R Geo interact with Web Browser?

Paul Ricci pricci at kitsolutions.net
Wed Oct 17 22:18:54 CEST 2012


Thanks Barry,

Were not generating interactive graphs, just stand alone graphs that go
along with an interactive mapping application.  We'd like to interface R
with that application.

-----Original Message-----
From: b.rowlingson at gmail.com [mailto:b.rowlingson at gmail.com] On Behalf
Of Barry Rowlingson
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:17 PM
To: Paul Ricci
Cc: r-sig-geo-owner at r-project.org; r-sig-geo at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] R Geo interact with Web Browser?

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Paul Ricci <pricci at kitsolutions.net>
wrote:
> Can R be integrated into a web browser mapping application to generate

> charts and graphs?  We are utilizing ASP.Net version 3.5 to build our 
> data visualization web application.  Could it interface using HTML and

> javascripts?  If it can interface would there be any browser specific 
> limitations (eg. Firefox, Safari)?

 It can't run on the browser, that's for sure, so you are really looking
at a server-side application. R can generate HTML, you can even use
something like 'brew' to create templates that get filled in with
computed R values.

 R won't be much use if you want interactive charts and graphs, although
I reckon clever things can probably be done with SVG graphics. You'd be
much better off using a client-side Javascript charting library - look
into D3.js - but you could drive this from data generated via an R
server back-end.

 Personally I'd ditch ASP.Net and save a fortune in license costs by
going all-open source with a Python-based server solution.

Barry



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