Hello,
Just to add a word to what Eric said. I think a graph gallery for R would be a very nice initiative. Of course, the easiest way would be a series of HTML of WiKi pages, with downloadable example R code. However, if someone volunteers to start and maintain a 'GraphGallery' R package, it would be much better. This way, example code could be run simply with:
> example(agraph)
Definitely, the weakness of the R-help system is that it does not allow pictures. Thus you have to actually run the examples to see the results. However, one could imagine a very simple function making thumbnails of all graphs in the gallery, using par(mfrow=...) and running all examples.
The complex format for graph galleries proposed by Eric, which is embedded in the development version of SciViews is probably not suitable for a wider use. A Graph Gallery for R should be better independent from any complement to R itself, like SciViews.
However, there are several good ideas in the format proposed by Eric (well, some debugging is still required), and the idea is to have a graph gallery that could be expanded to a GUI graph gallery, like in S-PLUS, that is, calling a particular graph could possibly display a dialog box where fields for parameters (x, y, line color, title, ...). Remember that SciViews is a GUI for R ;-) All this oculd be done with the tcltk package.
Anyway, the most important is to collect the material together. Then, more ambitous ways of providing code and example to R users could be build later...
I think that Paul Murrell, among other certainly has some good ideas, because he is preparing a book about R graphics (http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/rgraphics.html) and his is, after all, the grid gourou!
Best,
Philippe Grosjean
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Eric Lecoutre wrote:
Hi,
About any graph gallery:
Philippe Grojean and me did have made some work. Our goal was to add a clip library to the SciViews project that would offer access to a graph gallery. I was workiong on the production of the gallery, where as Philippe is still working on his GUI API. One of the goal is to have automatic wizards to make easier the creation of a graphic.
Here was our approach and some thoughts:
- We should propose a format for a description file. Here are some elements that should be gathered for each graphic function:
- Name of the function (*)
- Name of the produced graphic (*)
- Description of the graphic (*)
- Number of variables (univariate / bivariate / multivariate...)
- Types of variables
- Sample code (sample graph) (*)
- Package (*)
The (*) are some information already available in Rd files (except maybe sample graph).
- If someone deos something, I think it would be useful to ensure that all is reusable. We should focus on describing graphics. Then, for example, SciViews could use the information to create a usable graph gallery.
If someone is interested, I ahve put in the following archive all my current code:
http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISpersonnel/lecoutre/R/svGraphGallery.zip
There is no explanation but I would provide comments and help to any volonteer (basically, there is a file .ggs with some descriptions as stated before and some R code to that produce HTML files).
The result (the current gallery) is there. It is aimed to be something like 300 pixels large. At final step, graph would be clickable with a wizard.
http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISpersonnel/lecoutre/R/svGraphGallery/dock/svGallery.html
Eric
At 08:46 21/02/2005, Robert Cunningham wrote:
I too have often though a R-gallery would be useful.
It seems to me that a Wiki-style page with a database backend would be the best bet.
It also seems to be that the best place to start is a complete image gallery produced from all the examples in R base, then in packages in CRAN. In this context the graphicsQC package (http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/graphicsQC_0.4.tar.g) of Paul Murrell seems useful.
Cheers,
Robert Cunningham
Romain Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello Sander,
>
> That's a good idea and i am up to it.
>
> Right now i am in an exam period, so it's not really the better time,
> give me a couple of weeks and i will come up with a specific format of
> R files to submit to me that i could post-process to generate html
> documents.
> To my mind, those html files should show :
>
> - the plot itself
> + Submitter(s)
> - web page
> - email (eventually protected, I don't know how to do it)
> - Bibliographic references
> - Required R packages
> + Commentaries
> - in english
> - and in any other languages
>
> I'm open to any suggestion.
>
> Romain.
>
> Le 18.02.2005 14:33, Sander Oom a écrit :
>
>> Dear R users,
>>
>> Following some of the recent questions and discussions about the R
>> plotting abilities, it occurred to me again that it would be very
>> valuable to have an R graph gallery.
>>
>> Eric Lecoutre made a very nice example in:
>> http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISpersonnel/lecoutre/stats/fichiers/_gallery.pdf
>>
>>
>> It would be very useful to many beginners, but probably also
>> advanced users of R, to have an overview of R graph types with
>> graphical examples and associated R code.
>>
>> In order to facilitate the evolution of a large gallery, some sort
>> of wiki environment might be most suitable, thus providing access to
>> all users, but with limited maintenance costs for the provider.
>>
>> Do others agree this could be a valuable resource? Would anybody
>> have the resources to host such an R graph gallery?
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Sander Oom.
>>
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