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Thanks. I will see how it can fit in to the task view.

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I think servr is a great package and in fact a much needed package for rstats. I have been abusing shiny to get this basic server functionality for rendering static files. Any plans to submit this to CRAN @yihui ?

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Sounds like it's useful and should go on the task view...

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@ramnathv I can certainly submit it to CRAN if it can be useful to other people. I'm not sure if a similar package already exists. Besides, I think this package can be made more generally useful if we do something similar to FastRWeb. To some degree, httpuv is like Rserve, and I think there is one package missing like FastRWeb, which could be servr.

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I think the simplicity of servr is its biggest strength. I was looking for a package that would do what python -m SimpleHTTPServer would do, and AFAIK, all other R packages require extensive configuration to do what that python command does. Yes, you can make servr more feature rich, but repeating what Rserve and other full fledged webserver packages do, might defeat the purpose of servr. Maybe, we can continue this dialog on the servr github issues.

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Yes it's bloody useful! @DASpringate and I have been looking for something like this in R. We tried rRook, but haven't been able to get it configured properly for a simple static site, and no feedback on the rRook mailing list.

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Cool. Added a bit on servr in the task view here. Do edit the description as you like.

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@ramnathv Agreed. I'll make an initial release to CRAN soon.

@rmflight I'm glad to know it is useful to you.

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Terrific @yihui. Finally, I can stop using python or ruby to serve up static sites created using Slidify :)

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It is on CRAN now: http://cran.r-project.org/package=servr

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Thanks, will update.

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