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Re:Dimple: An object-oriented API for business analytics pow... by jonahx on Monday March 28, 2016 @07:55AM (#11373720)
With R, you won't be able to create interactive graphics that other people can explore on a web page, for example. If you need that, I don't think you can avoid javascript.
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Re:Dimple: An object-oriented API for business analytics pow... by hadley on Monday March 28, 2016 @09:11AM (#11374022)
While it's true that there needs to be some js involved, the analyst doesn't have to write it. You could use an R package (like https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/) which wraps around an javascript library, so that you can stay within R.
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Re:Dimple: An object-oriented API for business analytics pow... by chrisweekly on Monday March 28, 2016 @09:14AM (#11374032)
Shiny does just that: http://shiny.rstudio.com
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Re:Dimple: An object-oriented API for business analytics pow... by jonahx on Monday March 28, 2016 @09:43AM (#11374182)
Well, it just does the JS conversion for you. I guess you can call that avoiding JS...
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Re:Dimple: An object-oriented API for business analytics pow... by kpil on Monday March 28, 2016 @03:53PM (#11376867)
As long as you don't have to debug the output, yes :-)
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