[R] PHP and R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Applejus wrote:

> I know that using PHP command exec(...) you can call a unix command that
> would run an R script, but how does it work on Windows platform?

Exactly the same way.

> Basically, I have an R function which takes a file and two strings as
> arguments and I need to call this function and pass to it the arguments
> automatically from PHP (when the user hits a submit button on the webpage),
> any ideas??

See Rscript[.exe], which I gave an example of only this morning.

It is documented in 'An Introduction to R', amongst other places.

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