Greetings, I am working on creating an interactive website that will generate R-code for users based in the information they input on the site. Currently, the R-code can be generated and downloaded to be run locally on a computer with R. However, I have noticed a number of applications out there that instead submit the code directly to an R-web server. Some examples seem to be: http://www.biostatisticien.eu/cgi-bin/Rweb/buildModules.cgi http://quantpsy.org/interact/mlr2.htm http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/Rweb/ I would like to do something similar and set up R-web on a university server to execute my code. My trouble comes in terms of finding out more information regarding how to do this. Most of my searches of Rweb tend to point me to: http://www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/ But the associated links are all defunct. The R-Cran help pages related to R web also point to this now defunct website. I am at a loss regarding what to do. So, the question is, can someone out there tell me if it is possible to install Rweb on one of my own university servers and where can one go to learn how to do this? Thanks in advance for any advice. Scott T [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Tonidandel, Scott wrote:> Greetings, > > I am working on creating an interactive website that will generate R-code for users based in the information they input on the site. Currently, the R-code can be generated and downloaded to be run locally on a computer with R. However, I have noticed a number of applications out there that instead submit the code directly to an R-web server. Some examples seem to be: > > http://www.biostatisticien.eu/cgi-bin/Rweb/buildModules.cgi > > http://quantpsy.org/interact/mlr2.htm > > http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/Rweb/ > > I would like to do something similar and set up R-web on a university server to execute my code. My trouble comes in terms of finding out more information regarding how to do this. Most of my searches of Rweb tend to point me to: > > http://www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/ > > But the associated links are all defunct. The R-Cran help pages related to R web also point to this now defunct website. I am at a loss regarding what to do. > > So, the question is, can someone out there tell me if it is possible to install Rweb on one of my own university servers and where can one go to learn how to do this? Thanks in advance for any advice. >I may be biased, but I would recommend using FastRWeb, it's much more efficient and has a lot of advantages (allows pre-loading of data and code, supports parallel connections etc.). See http://rforge.net/FastRWeb and https://www.urbanek.info/research/pub/urbanek-iasc08.pdf We use it heavily internally for a lot of things we do, so it's definitely a very active project (in fact I know about several people using it externally as well). In case you get convinced that this is a good option, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions and need any help. Cheers, Simon
Ted, Simon may be biased, but I am not. I'm barely a few days into Rserve/FastRWeb and am blown away (and frustrated that I didn't have a good excuse to give it a try sooner). I'm still in the process of refining my setup (including a fresh installation of Apache2 on my Ubuntu box), and have documented the steps, which attempt to synthesize information from Simon's various docs and from my own communications with him. I will make these available, but if you drop me an email I'll send you my current draft. I can't wait to get beyond the obvious usage cases into some of the more advanced functionality. Jay -- John W. Emerson (Jay) Associate Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics Yale University http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay