graphs

Sore and tired, I write this post to mark the addition of dynamic graphs to genetify. It was a lot of work, on the one hand, because graphic device drivers are uncooperative, and on the other hand, because my graphing library of choice, the R statistical programming environment, was new to me and it has been used rarely behind a web server. Graphing in R, as good as it is, was never meant to serve a webpage. If it all sounds like it is another lesson in choosing standard technologies to solve a problem, it's because it is. The payoff, I hope in this case, is the analytical power of the R environment (second to none) and the promise of better web server integration thru FCGI or an apache module, of which there is one I discovered.