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 e
This is slightly tangential, but I would just add some notes related
to things that I had worked on (in various stages of completion).
This relates more to parsing SVG and Javascript from within R, rather
than R from within Javascript:
1) I wrapped most of the Protovis primitives in an R package c
Wolfgang,
I am currently working on this very thing under Duncan Temple Lang. Or, to
be more precise what you are describing is one piece of our overarching
goal, which is to create a system in which R can be run from within a
browser (currently FireFox) with bi-directional communication occurring
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 in
