Re: [R] Application design.

2014-07-23 Thread Joe W. Byers
On 07/21/2014 09:24 PM, John McKown wrote: I'm designing an R based application for my boss. It's not much, but it might save him some time. What it will be doing is reading data from an MS-SQL database and creating a number of graphs. At present, he must log into one server to run a vendor appli

Re: [R] Application design.

2014-07-22 Thread Greg Snow
Here are 2 possibilities to consider. The shiny package allows a web browser interface to R. It can run from a server, but can also run just on a single computer. You could set this up like you suggest, where the user would double click on an icon on the desktop which would then run R, load the

Re: [R] Application design.

2014-07-21 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
Since your boss is Excel based, you might want to give the appearance of staying in that environment. Take a look at RExcel and RWord, both at rcom.univie.ac.at RExcel is a seamless integration of Excel and R. See the book R through Excel that Erich Neuwirth (the author of RExcel) and I wrote. ht