Hi Simon, > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urba...@r-project.org] > Sent: October-05-11 5:07 PM > To: Ted Byers > Cc: 'Tonidandel, Scott'; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Question about Rweb > > Ted, > > On Oct 5, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Ted Byers wrote: > > > 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)? > > > > The setup is really easy (it supports either CGI or PHP), but you're on the > wrong platform :P see below. > Actually, I haven't had much choice with regard to platform. I presently work in a Windows only shop.
> [snip] > > 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) > > > > Well, technically, you can run it on Windows, but I would not recommend it. > Windows is a really bad server platform, especially with R (no fork, no parallel > connections, no unix sockets ...). > Yes, I know it's limitations, but at present I have no option but to deal with it. > The standard configuration in FastRWeb assumes a unix server (the more > common case) and it really consists of install.packages() and then copying > Rcgi from the cgi-bin directory of the installed FastRWeb package to your > web server's cgi-bin and starting Rserve (via /var/FastRWeb/code/start). > Alternatively, you can use the PHP client from Rserve instead of CGI. > > If you really want to use Windows, I have fixed the Windows build so it > should work, but you'll have to configure it by hand -- but as I said, I strongly > discourage the use of Windows for any R-related server activities - there are > too many security implications and it's far less efficient. > ;-) I have the machine that will be doing the real work behind several layers of security. How do I modify the command ""install.packages('FastRWeb',,'http://www.rforge.net/')"," so that it uses RTools to build it for Windows? Thanks Ted PS: I may have a machine soon to set up with Linux (the OS on that machine crashed, got corrupted, so I'll have to wipe its disk and install de novo. Is there a preferred distribution of Linux you can recommend (one for which I can download DVD disk images so I can burn install DVDs on one of my Windows boxes, or are they all pretty much the same? ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
