<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Hi all,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial"> I am
both a Linux and Windows R user. At work, I can only use Windows.
How much of RKWard is generalizable so that it can work on multiple
platforms? For example, if R is linked to an office suite for producing
output, it might be wiser to link it to OpenOffice instead of KOffice.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Steve</font>
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Steven Novick, Ph.D.<br>
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GlaxoSmithKline<br>
email: steven.j.novick@gsk.com<br>
telephone: 919-483-2702<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Hi!<br>
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> I just had a look at Rkward and it seems very promising. I just
have a<br>
> couple of (probably very stupid) questions:<br>
> 1) Why a php backend instead of a more "traditional" scripting
language<br>
> like python? There are a couple of python packages that can call R
directly<br>
> and manage R objects as if they were python objects. This question
is not<br>
> here to start a language war, but just out of curiosity.<br>
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Well, to a certain degree that decision is certainly related to my personal
<br>
likes/dislikes. The reasons for using PHP are:<br>
- fairly well known and stable (applies to python as well)<br>
- lots of functionality esp. with respect to string-processing (probably
<br>
applies to python as well)<br>
- it's a templating language, i.e. you can write plain R-code (or HTML
in the <br>
output section) and only fill in the code in the changing sections<br>
In the current design, PHP does not interface with R directly. Rather,
the <br>
RKWard application is in charge of both and manages requests from both
<br>
backends (actually, the R-backend can not yet do any requests, but in the
<br>
future it should be possible e.g. to start a plugin from the R-console).
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Hence it is not necessary for PHP to access R directly. In fact, it might
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even raise some problems regarding threading/the proper order of execution
of <br>
R-commands.<br>
Of course all this is open to discussion.<br>
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> 2) As to the syntax highlighting problem mentioned on the home page,
what<br>
> about katepart? I think it already has R syntax highlighting.<br>
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The homepage has not been updated for more than a year (I had not worked
on <br>
RKWard during that time). But in fact, I simply had not yet thought of
that. <br>
This way implementing syntax highlighting will in fact be about as easy
as it <br>
gets. Thanks for the hint.<br>
<br>
Thomas<br>
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