Running R on a web server

*Blog post
2008
Being updated
R software
Author

Steve Simon

Published

June 17, 2008

This page is currently being updated from the earlier version of my website. Sorry that it is not yet fully available.

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.

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.

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

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

Earlier versions are here and here.