Hi useRs, I had posted about Adobe FLEX talking to R for rich visualisation. Reply from Jeffery Horner contained links to the revolution-computing.com webpage which had information pertaining to the Bay Users R group Meetup on Web Dashboards with R.
I have a very specific project that I need to implement. I wish to use the graphics capabilities provided by Adobe FLEX to visualise outputs from R. For example: I would like to fit a regression model to a dataset in R and provide a FLEX interface wherein, a user may manipulate a slider which would increase or decrease a parameter estimate (between the confidence intervals of the estimate) of a variable to see the effect on the predicted values. I necessarily have to use FLEX for the interface. In trying to make sense of how to go about this task, I have speculated on the following technologies: 1) Using RSOAP which requires a Python client. I am not sure how I can implement this in Flex. 2) Using RSOAP provided by the Biocep project. This is a java implementation and maybe this would suit my requirements. 3) The StatDataML package in R provides the creation of xml files of R objects. Maybe I can use these XML files as encapsulators of R object data and pass it on to FLEX. 4) Since R has interfaces that connect to most SQL database servers, I can convert results of lm objects (summary(lmobject)) to data frames and push them into the SQL database. FLEX can then read the table and extract the relevant fields for output. I am aware that I not a computer programmer which is why I may not be making a whole lot of sense in describing the above scenarios, but I am trying to gain as much information and programming skills to 'decipher' the secret behind using FLEX and R. I have looked at Jeffery Horner's BBPLOT project (http://data.vanderbilt.edu/rapache/bbplot) and honestly I'm amazed. Replicating this with a FLEX interface is the closest I can get in describing my requirements. Any information/technical sources/tutorials etc in this regard will be much appreciated. Thank you for your time. Regards Harsh Singhal Decision Systems Mu Sigma Inc. Chicago, IL ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.