On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Sander Oom wrote: >Barry Rowlingson wrote: >> Romain Francois wrote: >> >>> Graphics will be classified in : >>> - categories >>> - sub-categories within those categories >>> So far so good. >> >> Maybe, maybe not! Would a system of keywords work better than strict >> hierarchical categories, as long as plots can have more than one keyword >> attached? Someone might be interested in all 3d plots, or all plots >> related to model fitting, and these categories may not be distinct! >> >> Barry >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > >The whole point of a gallery is to show something to the user before the >user knows what he is looking for. The R help functions currently >available are hopeless when you have a picture of a graph in your head >without knowing the required commands. > >Thus a gallery based on some categorization is required. The gallery >already has a search facility for 'un-categorized' searching. At the >same time the gallery will provide cross links between different graphs >using the same command/package or other similarities. > >I suggested that the categorization for sigmaplot graphs could be a >useful start: >http://www.systat.com/products/SigmaPlot/productinfo/?sec=1003
Also cloning the windows graph picking galery couldn't be a bad thing (could it?) If you have access to a recent version of excel you will see what I mean. Click a general 'barplot' to see more specific barplots etc. Dan. > >The gallery is based on a database, so keyword searching is no problem. > >Of course graphs will likely be members of more then one sub-category. >This is also no problem thanks to the database approach! > >Hopefully we can agree on a categorization, such that we can start >populating the gallery! > >Cheers, > >Sander. > > ______________________________________________ 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