CGIwithR installation failure [SOLVED]
rex <rex at nosyntax.net> [2013-06-08 18:05]:
CGIwithR apparently is not available on CRAN for R 2.15.x, so I downloaded the source (0.73) and tried: ~/Downloads$ R CMD INSTALL CGIwithR
Typo. Actually, I downloaded 0.72. Later, I found 0.73 here: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/CGIwithR/ D/L 0.73 tar -xzvf CGIwithR_0.73-0.tar.gz R CMD INSTALL CGIwithR * installing to library ?/home/rex/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15? * installing *source* package ?CGIwithR? ... ** package ?CGIwithR? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating R/CGIwithR.R ***************************************** After the installation of this R package is complete copy the files R.cgi and .Rprofile in /home/rex/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/CGIwithR/cgi-bin/ to the cgi-bin area of your Web server. If necessary, modify the settings in the first part of R.cgi to suit your local configuration. ***************************************** ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** installing vignettes ** testing if installed package can be loaded * DONE (CGIwithR) My slightly modified R.cgi, trivial.html & trivial.R are below for reference (I'm running Debian Testing & R 2.15.3). R.cgi #! /bin/sh ### A shell script to make CGI scripting possible in R. Part of the ### "CGIwithR" package for R. ### ### Author: David Firth, University of Warwick ### (d.firth at warwick.ac.uk) ### ### Terms of use: GPL version 2 or later. See "COPYING" in the ### R distribution. ### ### NO WARRANTY GIVEN, AND NO LIABILITY ACCEPTED FOR LOSS CAUSED BY ### USE OF THIS PROGRAM ### ### ### INSTALLING IT: ### ### This file, and the one-line ".Rprofile" file included with the ### package, must be placed together in a "cgi-bin" directory. Both ### files should be readable (and this file executable) by the web ### server. ### ### ### CONFIGURING IT: ### ### First locate R on the local system (typically the answer ### to "which R"). This is the command to run R. ### Individual R CGI scripts may request execution by a ### different, elsewhere-installed version of R; the R specified ### here is the default. R_DEFAULT=/usr/bin/R #R_DEFAULT=/usr/local/bin/R ### Graphs can be included in the output using either the ### GDD package (available from cran.r-project.org) ### or via ghostscript. ### GDD is the default. If it is not installed, the webPNG() ### function will attempt to use ghostscript. You can specify ### where the executable is located on your system via the R_GSCMD ### environment variable. If using GDD, you can ignore this. R_GSCMD=/usr/bin/gs #R_GSCMD=/usr/local/bin/gs export R_GSCMD ### The next two lines may optionally be edited to limit access ### to local resources. ### ### This line allows specification of the priority ### given to the R process. A nice of "0" is the normal ### priority, while e.g. "+10" causes R to be run as a ### low-priority process. The value "NONE" should be given if ### nice is not implemented locally. R_NICE=NONE ### This line allows the imposition of a length limit on the data ### entered on an HTML form for processing by an R script. ### Setting MAX_DATA_LENGTH=1000, for example, aborts ### execution if the data length exceeds 1000 characters. Or ### use MAX_DATA_LENGTH=NONE to impose no limit here. MAX_DATA_LENGTH=1000 ### ### To make use of packages not installed in the default library for R ### i.e. `R RHOME`/library/, set the environment R_LIBS to identify ### one or more library directories containing the packages (separated by :). ### This is only necessary if the CGIwithR package itself is not located ### in the default library, e.g. if one is using a different version. R_LIBS=/home/rex/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15/ export R_LIBS ### No further configuration is needed. No changes made in R.cgi below here. trivial.html <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>An example form for CGIwithR</title> <meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 6.1.2"> </head> <FORM action="http://www.nosyntax.net/cgi-bin/R.cgi/trivial.R" method="POST"> <body> Enter some words: <INPUT type="text" name="words" value="" size=20> <BR><BR> Now some numbers (separated by any kind of white space):<BR> <textarea name="numbers" rows=6 cols=20></textarea> <P><INPUT type="submit" size=3> </body> </html> trivial.R #! /usr/bin/R tag(HTML) tag(HEAD) tag(TITLE) cat("An example R.cgi output page") untag(TITLE) untag(HEAD) comments("Some comments to be ignored by the web browser") lf(2) tag(BODY, bgcolor = "lightyellow") lf(2) tag(h3) cat("A large heading") untag(h3) lf(2) tag(p) cat("Your words in italics:") tag(i) cat(formData$words) untag(i) untag(p) lf(2) tag(p) cat("Your numbers:") tag(pre) numbers <- as.numeric(scanText(formData$numbers)) print(numbers) untag(pre) untag(p) lf(2) # cat("Here is a graph:") ; br() # graphDir <- "/Users/david/Sites/graphs/" # graphURLroot <- "/~david/graphs/" # webPNG("temp.png") # plot(numbers) # img(src = "temp.png") ; br(2) # # lf(2) cat("The author is ") mailto("David Firth", "d.firth at warwick.ac.uk") # mailto("David Firth", "david.firth at nuffield.ox.ac.uk") cat(" and here is his ") linkto("website.", "http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/firth/") ; br() #linkto("website.", "http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~firth/") lf() tag(p) cat("Output produced at ", date()) untag(p) -rex
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