Overview

We combine Rook, jQuery, and Bootstrap to make a nice-looking, R-based web-application.

Screenshot

Installing

A list of the required packages are provided here.

To install a package:

install.packages('Rook')

The first parameter can also be a vector of multiple packages.

Running

$ ./main 

Attaching package: ‘jsonlite’

The following object is masked from ‘package:utils’:

    View

starting httpd help server ... done

Server started on host 127.0.0.1 and port 5000 . App urls are:

    http://127.0.0.1:5000/custom/test_project

To view the website, open the following in your browser:

http://127.0.0.1:5000/custom/test_project/html/index.html

This project was developed against Chrome.

Notes

• We use Rscript to be able to create an executable script to boot the application.
• We use Rook's Builder class to route the requests.
• We send raw user-code to the server and dynamically execute it.
• We use JSON in the Ajax communication.
• We serve images by redirecting the output device to a temporary-file and then using the same file in the response (after setting the content-type).