[R-gui] R web based application
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
znmeb at cesmail.net
Fri Nov 21 16:36:29 CET 2008
Wayne.W.Jones at shell.com wrote:
> 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
>
Speaking of ASP.NET, are there packages that allow an ASP.NET
application to use an R back end for statistics? I went looking for
statistical back ends to ASP.NET and didn't find anything that I thought
was worth spending money for.
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com/
"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." --
Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erdős
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