[R] rpad ?

[Tom Short]

As the author of Rpad, I'll say that it is officially abandoned. I
just don't have the time or the need for my job. If someone is
interested in maintaining it, I'll try to answer questions (the email
address listed on the package hasn't worked for a while, and the
mailing list got overwhelmed with spam).

Of the other R web interfaces I've played with or looked at, RApache
is the most promising. It offers more performance and security than
the Rpad approach. You can also make some pretty interactive pages.
The trade-off is that it's harder to build applications (the last time
I looked anyway). To get interactivity, the RApache approach requires
a fair amount of javascript programming. Rpad gives you interactivity
fairly automatically as a webpage with embedded R code.

- Tom

Tom Short


On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Erich Neuwirth
<erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> We are using RPad for a teaching application here.
> But we had to find many things the hard way,
> and additionally, it did not survive the latest R release change.
> There is a minimal repair, but the maintainer does not answer any email
> any more. We did the repair and are giving a modified version to our
> students, but we do not have enough resource to take over maintenance.
>
>
>
> On 3/23/2010 8:00 PM, sjaffe wrote:
>>
>> Is anyone using rpad? Is there any documentation or examples beyond that in
>> the 'man' directory of the source?
>>
>
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