Stats + Web Software

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Christopher Browne wrote:

> On 10/31/06, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>  There is rather no something like that around. I mean - I would rather do
>>  things by myself, using perl and PHP. Perl is excellent for analysis of
>>  text
>>  data (I am not teaching you;) HTML needed, combined with JavaScript, is in
>>  fact simple, though on a bit higher level than what we mostly see around.
>>
>>  Or perhaps I did not quite understand the question.
>
> Definitely not.
>
> Perl is perfectly good at text-munging.
>
> Which I am totally uninterested in, as the data that I have is
> *highly* structured, stored in relational database tables.
>
> What I'm interested in running various sorts of statistical analyses
> on that data.  The sorts of things for which one would use R, PSPP,
> Octave, Matlab, and the like.
>
> You can generate some pretty impressive summary graphs with R; it
> generates some mighty elegant Postscript output, from the perspective
> of looking at the PS code.
>
> Of course, that's not my interest; what I want is to turn the results
> into web pages for deployment via a web server.

    Convert (using convert from ImageMagick) the PS to PNG (or
    whatever).

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