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Is there a possibility to use R in a webinterface without the need to install it?

I have only one small script which I like to run but I just want to give it a shot without a long installation procedure.

Thank you.

vonjd
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    A "long installation procedure"? Only if you build from source. There are binaries for most popular OS distributions and it takes < 5 minutes to download and install them. – Joshua Ulrich Apr 18 '11 at 20:00
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    @Joshua: You are right - but "long" is relative, esp. when you compare it to just copy&paste into a webinterface. – vonjd Apr 18 '11 at 20:18
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    @vonjd: But you could have downloaded, installed, and run your script in less time than it took to write your question and wait for an answer. ;-) – Joshua Ulrich Apr 18 '11 at 20:25
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    @Joshua Good point. But in some work environments it can take a lot of effort just to get the permission to install *any* executable on a machine. And on Windows systems, most installations, even after a subsequent uninstall, litter the machine with detritus that accumulates over time and helps bog everything down, so if you aren't *sure* you're going to use some software there's incentive not to install it. – whuber Apr 18 '11 at 20:40
  • @whuber: I was somewhat joking with my last comment. I'm personally familiar with some of those constraints and I realize the benefits to a sandbox. – Joshua Ulrich Apr 18 '11 at 20:45
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    You can put an entire Windows installation of R (and RStudio for ease of use) on a flash drive. Just copy the R folder. Then you can take it with you. – kmm Apr 19 '11 at 01:48
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    This question appears to be off-topic because it is not about statistics. – Nick Stauner Apr 20 '14 at 19:44
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    This site has a simple R context: http://www.r-fiddle.org/ – Ron Jensen Jan 12 '16 at 18:57
  • Here's R in a jupyter notebook in your browser : https://rnotebook.io & https://tmpnb.org/ – Ben Apr 26 '17 at 16:10
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    @Ben: Thank you - what a pity that this thread was closed! – vonjd Apr 26 '17 at 17:49
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    Off topic and all that, but: ``rextester.com`` and ``repl.it`` work well. If you create an account, you'll probably like ``datacamp.com`` even better. – PatrickT Jul 07 '18 at 17:42
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    How can a question with so much interest - let's not forget that a number of people are working under the tyranny of IT department little men - can be possibly be closed? In any event, I just found [trinket](https://trinket.io/), which allows running R and Python on your browser. Fantastic! – Antoni Parellada Aug 14 '18 at 15:49

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Yes, there are some Rweb interface, like this one (dead as of September 2020), RDDR online REPL, or Repl.it.

Note: Installation of the R software is pretty straightforward and quick, on any platform.

chl
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Sage also has R included with a Python interface. The Sage system is available. Since a couple of years, the prefered way to run SageMath is via CoCalc. It also allows you to run R directly, e.g. in a Jupyter notebook using the R kernel.

Example:

r.data("faithful")
r.lm("eruptions ~ waiting", data=r.faithful)

Output:

Call:
lm(formula = sage2, data = sage0)

Coefficients:
(Intercept)      waiting  
   -1.87402      0.07563
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GaBorgulya
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  • I tried to run an r script in a Sage webinterface but it didn't work - it said that there was an error creating a png (no X.11 available or sth.) – vonjd Apr 19 '11 at 07:46
  • This python interface is freakin hilarious. Do you have any clue how it built? I mean I could make use of a much much simpler system but need to host on my own. – hans0l0 Oct 10 '12 at 19:31
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Also, if you want to provide a solution to other users, you can set up a webserver with RApache.

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    And now there's [Rack](http://jeffreyhorner.tumblr.com/post/4723187316/introducing-rack). – chl Apr 19 '11 at 09:58
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    @chl And now, it is called [Rook](http://jeffreyhorner.tumblr.com/post/4723187316/introducing-rook) (-; –  Nov 25 '11 at 22:33
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Some of the pastebin services will allow you to enter R code. For example, ideone. Here is a very silly hello world in R. I believe ideone limits you to 15 seconds compute time per run, and no fancy IDE, despite the name.

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Have a look at RStudio This has a desktop and web version. I have used the desktop version and it is pretty cool.

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