[Rd] R-Server remotecontrolled via browser-GUI

Bos, Roger roger.bos at us.rothschild.com
Fri Sep 28 18:42:31 CEST 2007


In response to Martin's suggestion, if you DID want a fairly simple way
to provide light-weight web access to R, Rpad would be a good choice.  I
actually run SQL Server 2005, Apache, and R/Rpad on the same server, but
the usage is very light in terms of number of users.  It was pretty
quick to set up and making a new Rpad page is really easy.

HTH,

Roger
 

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[mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Martin Morgan
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:28 AM
To: idontwant googeltospyafterme
Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] R-Server remotecontrolled via browser-GUI

Hi Josuah

RWebServices might be a different approach. It allows R functions and
methods to be deployed as SOAP-based web services, and relies on an
underlying Java architecture that uses JMS to separate the web services
front end from a collection of R workers (on different machines). This
seems more scalable than putting the R workers on the same machine as
the Apache server.

Entry point here:

http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.0/bioc/html/RWebServices.html

There is quite a learning curve and technology commitment associated
with this, so not the best solution for providing light-weight web
access to R.

Martin

"idontwant googeltospyafterme" <googel.vs.privacy at googlemail.com>
writes:

> dear r-community,
>
> currently i have a workflow as following:
> data in online-MYSQL-database via .csv into R for analysis, results 
> back to mysql.
> generating graphics for reports also.
>
> that's ok, but i need some process-optimization.
>
> i'd like to run r directly on the webserver. analysis should work 
> automatically, after the appropriate r-script was selected in a 
> browser-gui for R.
>
> until know after collecting some information, i think the best 
> approach to reach that goal is:
> * using mod_R / RApache to run multiple instances of r on the server,
> * build a website that will serve as frontend/gui for r either with 
> html/php or some ajax-framework,
> * connect R to the database with one of the available db-packages to 
> fetch the survey-data
> * put the r-scripts for analysis somewhere on the server
> * use cairo for generation of the images
> * and see what happens...
>
> i would like to know, if my construction seems good to you, if you 
> have other recommendations or constructive critics and what you think 
> about the effort for configuring mod_R/RAPACHE, cairo and the 
> db-package for r.
>
> thanks a lot in advance for your help!
>
> cheers,
>
> josuah r.
>
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Martin Morgan
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