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BrowserViz: a base class providing simple, extensible message passing between your R session and your web browser, for interactive data visualization.

Description

Many of the best interactive graphics capabilities available today are written in Javascript and run in a web browser. BrowserViz makes these capabilities available in R, using websockets for message passing back and forth between R and the browser. This class connects your R session to your web browser via websockets, using the R httupv library, which in turn uses the Rook webserver.

BrowserViz is a concrete base class, in that instances can be constructed and run - which we do for testing. The primary use of this BrowserViz is to be subclassed: to facilitate the creation of new browser-based, R-connected interactive graphics capabilities embodied in R packages, written by programmers with some skill in both R and Javascript. Two examples of this can be found in these Bioconductor packages https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/igvR.html and https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/RCyjs.html.

Slots

uri

The http location at which this modest webserver runs

port

An integer port number for the http connection

websocketConnection

An environment managed by the httpuv library on our behalf

quiet

Logical varaible controlling verbosity during execution

See Also

BrowserViz

An S4 class to create and manage a modest webserver for websocket message passing between R and Javascript running in your web browser

paul-shannon/BrowserViz documentation built on Jan. 15, 2024, 10:27 p.m.