[r-node-users] R-Node v0.1.0 has been released

[Jamie Love]

Hi all,

I've made a v0.1.0 release - which can be downloaded here:

http://www.squirelove.net/r-node/doku.php?id=start#download

This release includes quite a lot of nice new features:

1/ Most of the functions and features of the R-Intro document
(http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf) now work.
2/ Graphs can now be generated on the server using either normal R, or
rwebvis (http://code.google.com/p/rwebvis/) and these are shown to
users in the browsers, and can be downloaded.
3/ Files can be uploaded to the server, if the server is configured to allow it.

I'm going to do a little more tidy-up (a bit of documentation, default
to graphing on the server for example), and then announce R-Node on
the R mailing lists.


My main todo list is as follows now:

* The client UI should have an interface to save and load sessions,
saved to a per-username. Only available when users must log in.
* It seems that R version 2.10 includes a new help mechanism, which
breaks R-Node's current approach to retrieving the HTML help.
* Multiline commands in the console need supporting.
* package management could be better (e.g. library(), search(),
loadedNamespaces())

Functions to support:

2/ ?? searching help
3/ sink()
4/ Support 'edit()' command
5/ Can't draw a histogram using server.
6/ scan() doesn't work
7/ example() doesn't work
8/ demo() isn't supported.
9/ locator() is not supported.
10/ identify() is not supported.
11/ library() command is not supported.
12/ a command such as file.show(filepath) will not get picked up for the pager.

Regards

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Jamie
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