Hi, I want to call R from Perl to generate plots to be displayed on a webpage. What I found out so far is that there is a package called RSPerl on www.omegahat.org which should do what I need. However in the description it says it has been tested with R 1.3.* the latest. I'm using R 1.8.0 right now so the package seems rather unmaintained. It is not easy for me to just install it and see if it works because I have to contact the sysadmin everytime and he is kind of reluctant on 'just trying things out'. Does anybody have experience with RSPerl or any other solution on how to do this? Any help is appreciated, Martin Keller-Ressel
On 11/03/03 10:37, martin at ist.org wrote:>Hi, > >I want to call R from Perl to generate plots to be displayed on a >webpage. What I found out so far is that there is a package called >RSPerl on www.omegahat.org which should do what I need. However in >the description it says it has been tested with R 1.3.* the latest. >I'm using R 1.8.0 right now so the package seems rather unmaintained. >It is not easy for me to just install it and see if it works because >I have to contact the sysadmin everytime and he is kind of reluctant >on 'just trying things out'. > >Does anybody have experience with RSPerl or any other solution on how >to do this? Any help is appreciated,RWeb, at http://www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/ actually works, and it does what you are trying to do, although not necessarily exactly what you are trying to do. It isn't being maintained either, it seems. I wrote Jeff Banfield, the author, and received no reply. It is a very nice package, and I think it could serve as the foundation for a GUI that would be useful for students. (That was its intention.) You might also look at the CRAN package CGIwithR, which I have not tried. Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu
martin at ist.org wrote:> Hi, > > I want to call R from Perl to generate plots to be displayed on a > webpage. What I found out so far is that there is a package called > RSPerl on www.omegahat.org which should do what I need. However in > the description it says it has been tested with R 1.3.* the latest. > I'm using R 1.8.0 right now so the package seems rather unmaintained. > It is not easy for me to just install it and see if it works because > I have to contact the sysadmin everytime and he is kind of reluctant > on 'just trying things out'.RSPerl is being maintained and it works on 1.1.* and higher. I don't have the time to update _all_ the documentation. I don't believe you will need the system administrator's assistance to install the RSPerl package. It is designed to install into a local directory by default. If you have problems, you can send mail to omega-help at omegahat.org. D.> > Does anybody have experience with RSPerl or any other solution on how > to do this? Any help is appreciated, > > Martin Keller-Ressel > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help-- _______________________________________________________________ Duncan Temple Lang duncan at research.bell-labs.com Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies office: (908)582-3217 700 Mountain Avenue, Room 2C-259 fax: (908)582-3340 Murray Hill, NJ 07974-2070 http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/duncan