[R-gui] R web based application

[Tobias Verbeke]

Hi Waine,

<snip>

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

No. rJava is a very low-level interface.
We currently make use of the biocep framework

http://www.biocep.net

for making statistical applications available
to scientists in a big pharma company and
are very satisfied with the results so far.

 From your description it seems to largely
match your requirements.

I put the software architect of this framework
in cc; he is better placed to give you a detailed
overview off-line (as we use only the top of
the iceberg).

Best,
Tobias

> -----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
>