Thanks for that, looks like pretty much what I'm after. Kind Regards
Chibisi On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Iain Gallagher < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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<http://jquery.com/>. > 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.
