Hi Simon,
Yes I agree with you on the definition of IG (selection, data query,
...), but I only meant to respond to Oleg's "R lacks functionality
that would allow displaying of interactive plots with two distinct
functionalities: zooming and panning." I thought that was just a
problem to adjust th
On Feb 19, 2009, at 16:36 , hadley wickham wrote:
What we need is a more general framework for interactive graphics -
this
requires more than just a graphics subsystem - you have to depart
from the
concept of graphics objects and include "statistical objects" in
the mix
such that the under
Simon,
as promised I attach a simple package that utilises gtkdatabox. It is
Linux only, sorry for that: as it was hacked together in the last two
hours I did not have time for Windows stuff.
Under my Ubuntu I only had to install libgtkdatabox-dev from standard
repos (which would pull libgtk2-de
> What we need is a more general framework for interactive graphics - this
> requires more than just a graphics subsystem - you have to depart from the
> concept of graphics objects and include "statistical objects" in the mix
> such that the underlying data/statistics etc. can be identified by lin
On Feb 19, 2009, at 11:20 , Yihui Xie wrote:
Well, for the first idea, isn't it easy enough to fulfill zooming or
panning using getGraphicsEvent() in the grDevices package?
Yes, but that's exactly what interactive graphics are NOT about (you
just posted a good "chewing gum" reference from
