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

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Great. Good to hear. I recently put a package for using R as a SOAP
client on the Omegahat web site -- http://www.omegahat.org/SSOAP.  So
looks like we are getting SOAP access covered.

D.

Warnes, Gregory R wrote:
> 
> > -----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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