Leveraging R Packages Using WebFOCUS Dialogue Manager and R-Scripts
by Ali Rahim

RStat is an extension of WebFOCUS that allows statisticians, analysts and R language programmers to harness the power of a robust data mining and modeling toolset, and to create reports for management.
RStat is built on the Open Source Engine R. For this reason, one of the biggest advantages to RStat users is that they can leverage the many packages that the R community provides freely – if for some reason RStat’s included functionality is not enough. As of this writing, there were more than 3,000 library packages within R, but RStat is built on approximately 10 percent of the total packages. So how does a customer leverage the additional packages?
This article describes a basic step-by-step process for integrating an R package with WebFOCUS Dialogue Manager. This article makes no recommendations with regard to which model to use within any particular industry; this would be left to the customer to decide. Also, this article does not address how to code in Dialogue Manager nor in R programming language, except for the basics in creating the step-by-step guide.

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