R help - Jul 2003 - Ideas for remote collaboration on statistical analyses

I plan to use Sweave for most of the statistical reports I write for general
statistical consulting projects.  I would like to also have a way to collaborate
with remote clients using a phone and a web server.  This might involve a more
incremental output process than Sweave uses.  One could, for example, use a Wiki
like that from twiki.org to upload pieces of an analysis as it proceeds, having
the client click the refresh button to get more graphs, tables, etc.  But this
would be somewhat of a manual process that involves multiple edits or uploads. 
Has anyone thought of a more automated incremental web-based collaborative
analysis model?  The best solution might allow Sweave to easily be run once at
the conclusion, to get a better packaged and cross-indexed final analysis report
in pdf format.

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Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat

On 07/28/03 12:12, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>I would like to also have a way to collaborate 
>with remote clients using a phone and a web server.
One idea - which I have yet to convince any of my many remote
collaborators to try - is to use Vnc to allow you and the
client/collaborator to view the same R session at the same time.
It isn't a web server, but it is almost as easy to use.  You can
talk on the phone and discuss what you're doing.  Vnc can, in
principle, allow both of you to enter commands on the same screen
(although I've never tried this because I've never gotten that
far).  It is cross platform.  It requires a high-speed connection
to be useful.

See http://www.realvnc.com.

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