[Zope] Zope and R

[seb bacon]

On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 15:42, A.J. Rossini wrote:
> >>>>> "RB" == Ragnar Beer <rbeer@uni-goettingen.de> writes:
> 
>     RB> Yep, that's exactly what I mean. It would be very nice if you
>     RB> could comment some more.  
> 
> So, I (and another group, independently) have discussed integration,
> with the idea of having Zope be a WWW-front end for statistical
> analysis, both report generation as well as interactive style. 
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> 
> Version 1: treat R as batch.  This is ugly, and works (i.e. shell-out
> in CGI-style, constructing image files for the graphics and use
> LocalFS to read them back in.  

What's wrong with that approach?  It doesn't have to be ugly.  You can
distribute the work to other computers, the batch will run as a separate
process which gives you a certain number of advantages, and *it works*. 
I use imagemagick like this and I'm very happy with it.  The only issue
is writing x-platform code can be a bit tricksy.

seb