[R-gui] Re: R-SIG-GUI digest, Vol 1 #3 - 9 msgs

[Warnes, Gregory R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zed A. Shaw [mailto:zed.shaw@ubc.ca]

> I think creating an R "server" that was accessible from CORBA, 
> XML-RPC, etc. and ran R code reliably (without crashing every 
> two seconds because it's not in "interactive" mode) would do 
> a lot more for GUI development than anything discussed so far.  

On this topic, I've written a SOAP interface for R using R + Rpy + Python +
SOAPpy that seems to run reliably and exposes all the functionality of R.
It is currently winding through the final stages of the red tape :-( that is
required for me to publish it, but I expect that this will be complete in
about a week and a half. :-)

I originally wrote it so that I could provide R services to web applications
developed in Zope.  This step became necessary because Zope is multithreaded
and R is *not*.  (Sound familiar?) This way R is run in separate processes
that are managed and communicated with via SOAP.

As soon as the red tape is wrapped up, I'll put it up on sourceforge and
post a note here.

-Greg





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