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What documentation exists for R?

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Chapter 4: R Web Interfaces 21<br />

Rserve is a project actively developed by Simon Urbanek. It implements a TCP/IP<br />

server which allows other programs to use facilities of R. Clients are available from the<br />

web site <strong>for</strong> Java and C++ (and could be written <strong>for</strong> other languages that support TCP/IP<br />

sockets).<br />

OpenStatServer is being developed by a team lead by Greg Warnes; it aims “to provide<br />

clean access to computational modules defined in a variety of computational environments<br />

(R, SAS, Matlab, etc) via a single well-defined client interface” and to turn computational<br />

services into web services.<br />

Two projects use PHP to provide a web interface to R. R PHP Online by Steve Chen<br />

(though it is unclear if this project is still active) is somewhat similar to the above Rcgi<br />

and Rweb. R-php is actively developed by Alfredo Pontillo and Angelo Mineo and provides<br />

both a web interface to R and a set of pre-specified analyses that need no R code input.<br />

webbioc is “an integrated web interface <strong>for</strong> doing microarray analysis using several of the<br />

Bioconductor packages” and is designed to be installed at local sites as a shared computing<br />

resource.<br />

Finally, Rwui is a web application to to create user-friendly web interfaces <strong>for</strong> R scripts.<br />

All code <strong>for</strong> the web interface is created automatically. There is no need <strong>for</strong> the user to do<br />

any extra scripting or learn any new scripting techniques.

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