On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Jason Pickering < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tom, > Nice to hear others see the value in integrating DHIS2 and R more closely. > I have added several examples recently to the DHIS2 documentation on how to > use R and DHIS2/MyDatamart together. You can read this here. > > What I have yet to document (because I am still working on the code, then > will include some documentation) is the use of > FastRWeb<http://www.rforge.net/FastRWeb/>. > FastRWeb basically allows you to execute R as CGI Scripts using Apache and > Rserve. So a scripit like > > run<-function(n=10){ > x<-1:n > y<-rnorm(n) > Cairo(file="/tmp/svgtest.svg",type="svg",dpi=72) > plot(x,y) > dev.off() > readLines("/tmp/svgtest.svg") > } > > Is meant to produce a SVG graphic from some random data. Note that n=10. > This will be used as a paramater in the URL > > So, something like > > http://mydhis.foo.com/cgi-bin/R/svg?n=100 > > will tell FastRWeb to execute the file named svg.R (above) and supply the > paramater n=100 to the script. > > This then would allow you to parameterize your R scripts, so that reports > can be produced based on what the orgunit is. Now, does DHIS2 support this? > Not yet, but I suspect that it could quite easily. However, Lars has added > a number of examples of how to use the the WebAPI (which could also be used > for reports) to the documentation, which could also be used for building > reports with R. > > Hope this helps and keep me informed! > > Best regards, > Jason > Hi Tom, a quick way to get R reports into DHIS will be to use Jason's approach to get the R reports online (available at a URL) - then create a "Resource" in DHIS 2 which points to the URL for each report. To create a resource go to "Reports" - "Resource" and select "External URL" under type. Give a descriptive name and set the URL to the R report. You can now add those reports to the dashboard - in dashboard module set "Resources" in one of the link areas to the left. Lars
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