From rossini at blindglobe.net  Thu Aug 26 00:40:20 2004
From: rossini at blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini)
Date: Thu Aug 26 00:34:07 2004
Subject: [Rd] R as shared library
In-Reply-To: <412D0F9F.8050207@vanderbilt.edu> (Jeffrey Horner's message of
	"Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:15:59 -0500")
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	<412D0F9F.8050207@vanderbilt.edu>
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Jeffrey Horner <jeff.horner@vanderbilt.edu> writes:

> Good point. However, I chose this route to 1) understand R and its
> internals, which is more complicated than I thought,  2) write an
> apache module, which I've always wanted to do, and 3) leverage
> Apache's robust server technology. In my opinion, no other server
> software is as scalable and reliable as Apache. Plus, it has a module
> API to plugin other code, like an R interpreter.

All good reasons.  But what is the final API going to look like?  Are
you planning on SSI's for the general interface?

best,
-tony


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[Rd] R as shared library
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