Hi Chibisi I'm sort of jumping into this thread but from your description of charts / plotting below I thought you might like to take a look at flot:
http://code.google.com/p/flot/ >From the page "Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming. Although Flot is easy to use, it is also advanced enough to be suitable for Web 2.0 data mining/business intelligence purposes which is its original application. The plugin is targeting all newer browsers. If you find a problem, please report it. Drawing is done with the <canvas> tag introduced by Safari and now available on all major browsers, except Internet Explorer where the excanvas Javascript emulation helper is used." Maybe it could be useful to you for plots etc. Cheers Iain Chibisi Chima-Okereke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Felix, Thanks for the reply, If you haven't already guessed I am new to web programming. The sort of webpage I want to build is one that presents quantitative information in graphs and charts, that people can interact with, e.g. select parts of charts to zoom into, highlight values, click buttons to do analysis on the data displayed, so yes some sort of interactive GUI. I initially thought of using flash as a front end but I don't know any actionscript, so learning that would to a suitable standard take alot of extra time, and I think it would be best if everything could be done in R as much as possible. If I used an RGUI I guess I would be using the playwith package? Do the consumers of the website need to have R to consume stuff displayed with an RGUI? The database itself would just be pretty static just being queried for information, unless some analysis was required in which case R would query the database do the analysis and write the analysis back to the database (I guessing that is the way it would be done), before it gets displayed on the web page. Kind Regards Chibisi On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:39 AM, drflxms wrote: > Hello Chibisi, > > I am not shore whether I completely understand your needs: Do you want > to build a webpage which relies on a content management system (cms)? Do > you want to collect data (i.e. survey) which later on shall be analysed > using R? Or shall it be a webpage with an interactive R GUI? What else? > > But personally I would prefer MySQL as backend for websites, as most > professional (opensource) cms (i.e. typo3, wordpress etc.) are created > with MySQL in mind. > There is a good interface between R and MySQL called RMySQL as well. I > use this on a daily basis, as all my data is stored in a local MySQL > database (more flexible than always reading in text files - at least in > my opinion). > > Hope this personal view might help a little bit. > > Cheers, > Felix > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
