[Rd] Interactive Graphics in R [Was: Google Summer of Code 2009]

Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Fri Feb 20 00:00:41 CET 2009


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 underlying data/statistics etc. can be identified by  
>> linking
>> back though the graphics. This is something we still lack in R ---  
>> but I
>> hope we will get there sooner or later...
>
> Well apart from the interactivity, you have that with ggplot2.
>

Ehm - interactivity is the point here ...

Cheers,
S



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