Earlier I suggested as a *start* for the R-gallery to process the examples in R base and in the packages on CRAN. However, this was only as a start It seems to me that there are three types of images that would be useful in such a gallery;
1: The processed examples of base and CRAN 2: Figures based upon code AND data sent in by users 3: Figures with code but WITHOUT data sent in by users (we could have figures without code or data [pure decorations] I would not support that myself) I think a package to automate production of gallery items would certainly be useful. I would suggest the basic function in the package would be one that produces the a Gallery Item with whatever details and in whatever format is suitable. Other functions may allow automatic submission of the Gallery Item and another would allow bulk processing of packages etc by looping over the function etc (Paul Murrell's graphicsQC package already processes all the example images in a package). I agree with Paul Murrell that storage in a database would be the best option though probably more difficult to set up at the start. I agree with Sander Om that encouraging SVG would be nice. I looked at the Japanese R-Wiki mentioned by Shigeru Mase and the RGallery Eric Lecoutre mentioned and certainly these are the *sort* of things we are interested in though perhaps with different formats and language ;-) I also agree with Gabor Grothendieck that it would be useful to make use of the existing R Wiki, though this depends on how much Gallery Item processing we would expect the host to do and whether this could be arranged on the Wiki. I guess how much the server would be expected to do is a critical question, from there we could proceed to the details of a Gallery Item format and then functions and a package. Cheers, Robert Cunningham ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html