[BioC] specifying hyperlinks on the plot

[Vincent Carey 525-2265]

BTW it would probably be sensible to cast this problem for r-devel,
as it is a good problem of general annotation of statistical visualizations.

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Byron Ellis wrote:

>
> 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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