Creating and Deploying an Application with (R)Excel and R

Authors

Thomas Baier, Universitity of Vienna
Erich Neuwirth, Universitity of Vienna
Michele De Meo, Venere Net Spa

Date of this Version

12-2011

Document Type

Article

Citation

The R Journal (December 2011) 3(2)

Comments

Copyright 2011, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported

Abstract

We present some ways of using R in Excel and build an example application using the package rpart. Starting with simple interactive use of rpart in Excel, we eventually package the code into an Excel-based application, hiding all details (including R itself) from the end user. In the end, our application implements a service oriented architecture (SOA) with a clean separation of presentation and computation layer