Today, I realized how Rpad is much better that any technology we have been using so far. One of the things that makes Rpad special is that they use AJAX technology. This means that whenever we want to create new plots, or new analysis, we don't have to refresh our webpage.. and this is really great... Thanks to web 2.0 people for this amazing technology!
Another good feature about Rpad, is that we don't have to have a server to run it. It can run locally using a miniwebserver, and thus it can be run on the Intranet, and hence we would have more security. But also, Rpad can run remotely, but we have to do some extra work, and this should be fine on later stages if we decide to go public.
Another issue about Rpad, is that I found it very useful tool for educational technology for statistics courses (maybe this has nothing to do with our project, but it is really interesting). We can have electronic books for statistics, and we can make the user/student run on the spot the analysis he/she is learning about.
Last time, I was able to create someting, but it did not look so great, because the Rcode was showing on the webpage, and for sure we would not like to have it appearing,,, the doctors might chicken out! :S, but today I was able to find a way to get rid of this crap.
I was able to find a way to make our web page have tabs. on each tab, a different plot is dynamically created!
9:00 --> 12:00 : searching for the Rpad website, and downloading all of its files.
1:30 --> 4:30 : recreating of the website, using tabs
More to come tomorrow!!! so interesting!
The following is a snapshot of my work today (You can click on the picture to enlarge):
Good idea to download all available information while you could access the page. I have the same problems with rpad.org at this time. Hopefully, this is not a web page/technology that is no longer supported...
ReplyDeleteYour figure & comments above answer my previous question. And it certainly makes more sense to our medical collaborators to hide the R code from the Web page ;-)
Does the rpad Cran Web site at
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rpad/index.html
contain any useful information?
And have you received a reply from
Tom Short, the maintainer?