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Being a RStudio user since its earlier days I just installed RStudio Server on my local ubuntu VM. The browser version acts quick, offers user management etc. – a lot of reasons for me to be impressed here. I also like the fact that integrating it with an LDAP based user management does not seem to be a long shot.

Besides I have been following the development of opencpu.org and Jeroen Ooms' other projects for quite some time. Applications like the lme4 are relevant for me in particular.

I am developing an institution specific R package for our institute on my own and want to increase its usage within the organization by putting in on an application server and by adding a web based gui.

Both projects described above offer way more than I need, so no need to re-invent to wheel. But I am not sure which kind of wheel I should use here.

Which architecture would you use to built a web-based GUI with LDAP user-management (using an external LDAP server) for a custom package?

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RStudio server is more so about offering R sessions to users. For an abstracted GUI you just want a RESTful connection to R so go with opencpu.org

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  • I thought about modifying R Studio Server as an alternative to that, cause it seems to offer a nice user management. – Matt Bannert Jul 26 '12 at 14:01
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    That would most likely be a very sizable task, I recommend going with Twitter Bootstrap + opencpu.org for a quick and easy MVP. – Hansi Jul 26 '12 at 14:34