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I'd like to kindly challenge the notion that you can't integrate R into a web application. I've started using R to power jobs that are used by a large web appli
by RA_Fisher 11y ago
I'd like to kindly challenge the notion that you can't integrate R into a web application. I've started using R to power jobs that are used by a large web application. The R packages httr or RCurl make it pretty easy to make http requests -- (enabling me to send things to a web server to be consumed into a database and run by back-end code). It's also possible to prepare data in R and then send to a space like S3 with a System("s3cmd sync some-data s3://some-data") call. I've also been using Python a good bit lately. I don't see either has having a universal advantage for a data pipeline.
- geomark 11y agoI was just introduced to yhathq.com. It's a platform that allows you host your R function on the web and exposes an API. Seems quite interesting, and I'm wondering if it helps solve R-based web app problems.
- haddr 11y agoI was once quite suprised that R was missing any kind of RESTful service package for exposing R functions as a REST service. What I was looking for was basically some way to invoke a couple of R functions from the web application. In the end I managed to do it with some JRI (part of rJava) bindings. Maybe it's a good idea to implement such thing.