B. D. Ripley and R. M. Ripley
Applications of R Clients and Servers
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Using R as a component in a distributed system is a fast way to obtain
the best features of several tools. This is illustrated by
- using a Visual Basic client with R and database servers under
  Windows to enter and analyse medieval chant,
- using R as client to a DBMS holding large-scale insurance data,
  or embedding R within such a DBMS, and
- using R as client of an Oracle database holding gene expression data.