jeroenooms/opencpu — Issue #1: Github Gists as store backend
Author: mhermans
Created: 2012-03-08 17:35:57+00:00
State: open

I was wondering if a similar model as [bl.ocks.org](http://bl.ocks.org/) would be possible for OpenCPU. The service takes a single Gist with a pre-defined structure (e.g. an index.html file and a json-file) and outputs the visualization at the http://blocks.org/\. This allows for simple trial-and-error, storing, sharing and forking of snippets--something I'm currently missing for OpenCPU.

In the case of OpenCPU, the Gist could contain one file "functions.R" from which the functions are sourced and possibly datafiles in csv/tab used by the functions. These could be loaded into the store under a namespace identified by the generated Gist-identifier, allowing for meaningful names and easy forking.

http://beta.opencpu.org/R/store/gist/