Sumo is a web application intended as a template for developers. It is distributed as a Java ‘war’ file that deploys automatically when placed in a Servlet container’s ‘webapps’ directory. If a user supplies proper credentials, Sumo creates a session-specific Secure Shell connection to the host and a user-specific R session over that connection. Developers may write dynamic server pages that make use of the persistent R session and user-specific file space. The supplied example plots a data set conditional on preferences indicated by the user; it also displays some static text. A companion server page allows the user to interact directly with the R session. Sumo’s novel feature set complements previous efforts to supply R functionality over the internet.
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Bergsma & Smith, "The R Journal: Sumo: An Authenticating Web Application with an Embedded R Session", The R Journal, 2012
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2012-008,
author = {Bergsma, Timothy T. and Smith, Michael S.},
title = {The R Journal: Sumo: An Authenticating Web Application with an Embedded R Session},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2012},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2012-008},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2012-008},
volume = {4},
issue = {1},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {60-63}
}