Lots of interesting responses to this, but I would add that the qtbase package allows for interesting hybrid applications between the web/javascript and R. Qt includes a WebKit port, which is integrated with the QtScript module, a javascript implementation. With qtbase, one could hypothetically embed WebKit within R and expose R objects (extending QObject) to the Javascript context. Thus, one can call R through Javascript, in a running R session. You can also modify the Javascript code in the page, making it possible to integrate R with any page off the web.
See: http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use/files/pdf/qt-features-for-hybrid-web-native-application-development I haven't actually tested all of that with qtbase, but it should work in theory. Embedding widgets (with R callbacks) into web pages definitely works. There is also the QtSvg module, which parses and outputs SVG. Michael On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Wolfgang Huber <whu...@embl.de> wrote: > > Since now many browsers support (ECMA/Java-)scripted SVG, I am wondering > whether there are already any examples of inserting R code into SVG > documents (or a Javascript canvas?) either directly, or perhaps more likely > through a JavaScript layer, to dynamically generate graphics or make them > interactive? > > I am aware of the excellent packages gridSVG and SVGAnnotation, which > facilitate making R-generated SVG plots more interesting either at > construction time or by postprocessing; the above question is about > employing R at viewing time. > > Best wishes > > Wolfgang Huber > EMBL > http://www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/huber > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
