Running R on a web server (June 17, 2008).

I'm working on a project for planning and monitoring accrual patterns in clinical trials. This will eventually lead, I hope, to a grant to support this work. I have some existing R scripts and want to examine the possibility of running those scripts on a web page.

The R FAQ has a section on this.

• cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-Web-Interfaces

There are a variety of solutions, using CGI, Java, JavaScript, and PHP. I'll investigate these, but the one that seems to be the best fit is rwui.

• rwui.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/

A nice description of this package appears in the October 2007 issue of R News.

• www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2007-2.pdf

Another possible candidate is CGIwithR. A paper in the Journal of Statistical Software describes this system.

• www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i10/paper

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