Using R in Processing through rJava/JRI?
- by tommy-o-dell
Hi guys,
Is it possible to run R in Processing through rJava/JRI? If I deployed a Processing app on the web, would the client need R on their system?
I'm looking to create an interactive information dashboard that I can deploy on the web. It seems that Processing is probably my best bet for the interactive/web part of things. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there are many math/stats functions built-in. And there aren't any libraries for plotting data either.
I've been using R and gpplot2 for a few months and am thrilled (amazed) at how easily it manipulates and plots data.
So I'm wondering now if can get the best of both worlds and run R through a Processing applet.
From the JRI website:
JRI is a Java/R Interface, which allows to run R inside Java
applications as a single thread.
Basically it loads R dynamic library
into Java and provides a Java API to R
functionality. It supports both simple
calls to R functions and a full
running REPL.
In a sense JRI is the inverse of rJava
and both can be combined (i.e. you can
run R code inside JRI that calls back
to the JVM via rJava). The JGR project
makes the full use of both JRI and
rJava to provide a full Java GUI for
R.
JRI uses native code, but it supports
all platforms where Sun's Java (or
compatible) is available, including
Windows, Mac OS X, Sun and Linux (both
32-bit and 64-bit).
Thanks for the advice :)
