Hi Simon, Any chance of getting step by instructions on setting it up to work with a web server like Apache's httpd server (I have Apache's web server running, actually a couple instances on different ports, and I do all my CGI programming using Perl)?
I am not so much looking to provide a web interface for working with R, but rather want to write CGI programs that use R for specific analyses and graphics. I was considering writing my R scripts as usual (using the capabilities of QRMlib and RQuantLib, in particular), and have them invoked by a cgi script written in perl. But your description suggests it can be made faster. Each package I looked at for doing this was interesting, but I always got stuck at the point of figuring out how to get Apache's httpd server to run my R scripts. Your description suggests that a request requiring R can be just passed onto Rserve, but how does one set that up; i.e. to pass the request arguments through to the R script, and to tell Rserve which R script to use? Any insights on setting this up would be appreciated. On http://rforge.net/FastRWeb/files/, I read that FastRWeb is to be installed using "install.packages('FastRWeb',,'http://www.rforge.net/')", but that gives me the following message: > install.packages('FastRWeb',,'http://www.rforge.net/') Installing package(s) into 'C:\Users\Ted\Documents/R/win-library/2.12' (as 'lib' is unspecified) Warning message: In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) : package 'FastRWeb' is not available > This was on: R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Thanks Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Simon Urbanek > Sent: October-05-11 3:06 PM > To: Tonidandel, Scott > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Question about Rweb > > > 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 > [snip] > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
