[BioC] Re: how to display graphics on the web?

[Colin Smith]

Check out the webbioc package in BioC-Devel. It does web-based analysis 
of Affymetrix data from CEL files to annotated HTML lists with 
hyperlinks to online databases. It also creates M vs. A, QQ-Normal, and 
multiple testing procedure selectivity plots. The image quality issue 
was solved by using the GhostScript bitmap() device to super-sample PNG 
images at 4X resolution and then scale them back down to nice 
antialiased images with Netpbm.

I don't know if this will do what you want. (I'm looking for someone to 
add a cDNA chip input module.) Perhaps the code might be useful for 
ideas. (Mostly Perl calling R in batch mode.) For more info, see the 
vignette and R News article, respectively:

http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/devel/vignette/webbioc.pdf
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2003-2.pdf

-Colin

On Nov 21, 2003, at 8:36, bioconductor-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:

> Does anybody has ideas to call R from web page to do
> analysis and dynamically display generated graphics
> in the web page?
> There are couple packagas like Rweb and Rcgi. but
> seems the quality is not good enough and programming
> is too restrictive.
>
> I know insightful.com has a Statserver that can
> generate good graphics. (refer:
> http://www.insightful.com/products/statserver/default.asp),
>
> but it is not open source.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.