On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Each time there is a new vote: > 1- the page managing the vote adds the result of the vote to a plain text file > 2- launch an R script (by a system/bash call) > The R script will do the following: > 3- Read the results of the vote from the plain text file > 4- Generates the plot(s), saving it in a png file in a folder of the web > server > 5- optionally adding interaction (saving relevant javascript file) > > The steps 1 and 2 can be replaced by a direct call to R (there are R bindings > from many web scripting languages). > > I volunteer to do steps 3 to 5 if you are interested. > This requires to have R installed on the web server (it is packaged for most > linux distribs).
Using R would be massive overkill! Open-source javascript packages exist for charting, Tim has just blogged about this so I assume he's working on it. I've used 'flot' in the past and am being impressed by 'protovis'. Barry _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
