Paul Murrell wrote: > Along similar lines, it would be useful if gallery entries could be > submitted as a plain text or maybe an XML file. Something like: > > <plot title="blah"> > <desc>yadda yadda</desc> > <code>plot(1)</code> > </plot> > <plot title="blah blah"> > <desc>yadda yadda yadda</desc> > <code>plot(2)</code> > </plot> > > This would allow people with existing sets of plots to generate an entire > set of gallery submissions automagically from a script. It would also > make it feasible to automagically generate gallery entries from the > examples in packages such as graphics and lattice. > > If the central gallery repository actually stored the gallery entries in > this sort of format (or possibly even in a database) then the gallery > itself could be automagically "published" in a variety of different > formats via scripts (e.g., web pages for display, web pages for editing > entries, an enormous PDF document, an R package, ...). > > Paul
Huuumm, Paul,... all this remember me something: it is the definition of R help .Rd files! After all these are plain ASCII files, you can put various sections in them, you have one section to hold executable R code (example) and you already have tools to compile them into web pages, enormous PDF files, R packages, etc...
The only thing that is missing is the possibility to include pictures in them... which seem to me quite important for a graph gallery! However, I guess this could be quite easily circumvented. The key thing would be to replace the textual index by a thumbnail of icons for the various graphs. Then, the way R packages are structured is just fine. You can even embed datasets you want to use as examples to illustrate your graphs, or custom functions for producing exotic graphs.
If someone volunteers to maintain such a 'GraphGallery' package, them people could simply send .Rd pages to him, and the graph gallery would grow little by little that way. What? Why do you all look at me? No, I am not volunteer for that... at least not for the moment! I was just dreaming that it would be a nice tool for someone's "R Graphics" book that will be published shortly... :-)
Best,
Philippe
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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.
Along similar lines, it would be useful if gallery entries could be submitted as a plain text or maybe an XML file. Something like:
<plot title="blah"> <desc>yadda yadda</desc> <code>plot(1)</code> </plot> <plot title="blah blah"> <desc>yadda yadda yadda</desc> <code>plot(2)</code> </plot>
This would allow people with existing sets of plots to generate an entire set of gallery submissions automagically from a script. It would also make it feasible to automagically generate gallery entries from the examples in packages such as graphics and lattice.
If the central gallery repository actually stored the gallery entries in this sort of format (or possibly even in a database) then the gallery itself could be automagically "published" in a variety of different formats via scripts (e.g., web pages for display, web pages for editing entries, an enormous PDF document, an R package, ...).
Paul
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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