Is it possible to run a R script using a web server? [closed]

Question

Is it possible to run a R script using a web server, similar to Perl CGI?

Answer 1

Yes and you can even run Rstudio remotely on a webpage. If you want to just run a R script, you have several options:

• you can simply ssh your computer that have R
• find an online solution (here is the list from CRAN).
• build your own server with Rook
• depending what you want to do a shiny app could help as well
• You have other solutions such as rApache if you didn't like other soltutions