On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, John Kim wrote: > I'd like to call R from a PHP script to draw graphs (using data selected > from a MySQL database) on Windows 2000. I think what I need to do is: > > 1) Install R for Windows > 2) Install Perl > 3) From PHP make a system call to Rcmd.exe
No. Rcmd.exe is just a frontend to R's utilities; it does not run R. I suggest you do 1) first and understand how R on Windows works. > 4) ??? > > Does this seem right and/or possible? I'm not sure how PHP can "receive" the > graphic generated by R. I am not sure what you mean: PHP is a scripting language, not a graphics windowing system. > I have Apache/PHP/MySQL running. Any help or > pointers would be appreciated. The usual way to do this on Windows is via DCOM (see the rw-FAQ), but you could call the command-line executable Rterm.exe and either let it display files or create e.g. PNGs and subsequently put those on a web page. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
