[R-gui] R web based application

[Wayne.W.Jones at shell.com]

Apologies for the rather general question. 

Some more details: 

 - What are your goals? 

Port an application to a web based app. 

 - What are your constraints?  

Has to be a windows based web based solution. Our developers would probably prefer to use ASP.NET to build website.

 - Do you have restrictions in terms of the webserver and R backend or not?  
Will use windows IIS web server. 

 - Is this Rapid Development for one-offs, or rather industrial strength ?
Industrial strength, it has to be high quality. 

 - How many users?  

 - How many concurrent users?  

Potentially hundreds of users and it has to handle concurrency probably up to a max of 8 users. 


 - Light or heavy analysis?  

Generally medium. 


Has anyone implemneted a web based solution using the package rJAva?


Wayne



-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd at debian.org]
Sent: 18 November 2008 15:15
To: Jones, Wayne GSUK-GSEA/1
Cc: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-gui] R web based application



Hi Wayne,

Caveat:  I am not a web-developer.

On 18 November 2008 at 15:14, Wayne.W.Jones at shell.com wrote:
| I am looking in to porting an application I have written in R to an R web based application. 
| Can anyone suggest based on their own experiences what may be the best method to accomplish this?

I find the question somewhat under-specified:

 - What are your goals? 
 - What are your constraints?  
 - Do you have restrictions in terms of the webserver and R backend or not?  
 - Is this Rapid Development for one-offs, or rather industrial strength ?
 - How many users?  
 - How many concurrent users?  
 - Light or heavy analysis?  

You can do some pretty nice things with Rpad, but I have also been impressed
with the bigger-iron stuff Greg Warnes does (did ?) around Zope.  There is
more, but I guess you may get more useful answers if you provide more
focussed questions.

Cheers, Dirk

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