[R-gui] R web based application

Erich Neuwirth erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at
Fri Nov 21 16:46:45 CET 2008


Did you have a look at this?

http://www.msbi.nl/dnn/Default.aspx?tabid=159

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 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.
> 
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