Overview - skiadas/PanthR GitHub Wiki

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PanthR is a free web-based tool for statistics. It utilizes HTML5 and Javascript to create a rich environment and perform most statistical computations in the client itself, while at the same time linking to an R backend for more heavy duty tasks.

PanthR consists of 3 logical components:

• A Web Client written in Javascript. This client utilizes web workers to manage dataset computations. It manages datasets, graphs and other reports. It can work "offline", or by linking to a web server.
• A Web Server that locally connects to a local R server. The server receives client requests, creates a separate "id" for each client, delegates tasks to the R server, and sends results back to the client. Multiple organizations can run a server, providing size limits for how many users they can serve. The main page of the PanthR project should keep a list of all those "mirrors", allowing users to connect to a mirror closer to them.
• An established Language API for the communication between client and server. This interface should contain a rich enough syntax to allow the description of any typical task related to a dataset. It should probably contain a versioning system, allowing the possibility of updating the interface to offer more functionality. A client/server could then decide what level of this interface to support.
• A central location, www.panthr.org, to act effectively as a distribution center. At this stage of the project, we ill have only one server and it will act as the distribution center as well.

Here's a rough picture of the connections.