[BioC] specifying hyperlinks on the plot

[Byron Ellis]

On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 01:55  PM, A.J. Rossini wrote:

>
>     vincent> the short answer is no.  a related question is why 
> restrict to pdf
>     vincent> or postscript?  for x11 graphics, the locator function 
> can be used
>     vincent> to get information about mouse position.
>
> Restriction may be the wrong word, but the general idea is solid, I
> think (i.e. mailing a hyperlinked PDF file to collaborators, for
> example).
>

Even beyond this, PDF also supports embedded Javascript (for better or 
for worse) that could let you do potentially interesting things. Being 
able to generate active PDFs is definitely desirable (for posting or 
mailing to people who neither know nor care about R :-)). I don't see 
the current device driver model handling this very well.

> I think the general annotation problem (thinking along the lines of
> Vince) would be worth looking at.
>
> best,
> -tony
>
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Byron Ellis (bellis@hsph.harvard.edu)
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