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Asked: 2026-05-26T23:24:47+00:00

I’m interested in using a statistical programming language within a web site I’m building

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I’m interested in using a statistical programming language within a web site I’m building to do high performance stats processing that will then be displayed to the web.
I’m wondering if an R compiler can be embedded within a web server and threaded to work well with the LAMP stack so that it can work smoothly with the front-end and back-end of the web site and improve the performance of the site.
If R is not the right choice for such an application, then perhaps there is another tool that is?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are confusing two issues.

    Yes, R can be used via a webplatform. In fact, the R FAQ has an entire section on this. In the fifteen+ years that both R and ‘the Web’ have ridden to prominence, many such frameworks have been proposed. And since R 2.13.0 R even has its own embedded web server (to drive documentation display).

    Yes, R scripts can run faster via the bytecode compiler, but that does not give you orders of magnitude.

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