[R] Hosting a R Graph Gallery?

Mon Feb 21 10:20:25 CET 2005

Hi,

About any graph gallery:
Philippe Grojean and me did have made some work. Our goal was to add a clip 
library to the SciViews project that would offer access to a graph gallery. 
I was workiong on the production of the gallery, where as Philippe is still 
working on his GUI API. One of the goal is to have automatic wizards to 
make easier the creation of a graphic.

Here was our approach and some thoughts:

- We should propose a format for a description file. Here are some elements 
that should be gathered for each graphic function:
         - Name of the function (*)
         - Name of the produced graphic (*)
         - Description of the graphic (*)
         - Number of variables (univariate / bivariate / multivariate...)
         - Types of variables
         - Sample code (sample graph) (*)
         - Package (*)
The (*) are some information already available in Rd files (except maybe 
sample graph).

- If someone deos something, I think it would be useful to ensure that all 
is reusable. We should focus on describing graphics. Then, for example, 
SciViews could use the information to create a usable graph gallery.

If someone is interested, I ahve put in the following archive all my 
current code:
http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISpersonnel/lecoutre/R/svGraphGallery.zip

There is no explanation but I would provide comments and help to any 
volonteer (basically, there is a file  .ggs with some descriptions as 
stated before and some R code to that produce HTML files).

The result (the current gallery) is there. It is aimed to be something like 
300 pixels large. At final step, graph would be clickable with a wizard.

http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISpersonnel/lecoutre/R/svGraphGallery/dock/svGallery.html

Eric

At 08:46 21/02/2005, Robert Cunningham wrote:
>I too have often though a R-gallery would be useful.
>
>It seems to me that a Wiki-style page with a database backend would be
>the best bet.
>
>It also seems to be that the best place to start is a complete image
>gallery produced from all the examples in R base, then in packages in
>CRAN. In this context the graphicsQC package
>(http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/graphicsQC_0.4.tar.g) of Paul
>Murrell seems useful.
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Robert Cunningham
>
>
>
>Romain Francois <francoisromain at free.fr> writes:
>
> > Hello Sander,
> >
> > That's a good idea and i am up to it.
> >
> > Right now i am in an exam period, so it's not really the better time,
> > give me a couple of weeks and i will come up with a specific format of
> > R files to submit to me that i could post-process to generate html
> > documents.
> > To my mind, those html files should show :
> >
> > - the plot itself
> > + Submitter(s)
> >         - web page
> >         - email (eventually protected, I don't know how to do it)
> > - Bibliographic references
> > - Required R packages
> > + Commentaries
> >        - in english
> >        - and in any other languages
> >
> > I'm open to any suggestion.
> >
> > Romain.
> >
> > Le 18.02.2005 14:33, Sander Oom a écrit :
> >
> >> Dear R users,
> >>
> >> Following some of the recent questions and discussions about the R
> >> plotting abilities, it occurred to me again that it would be very
> >> valuable to have an R graph gallery.
> >>
> >> Eric Lecoutre made a very nice example in:
> >> http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISpersonnel/lecoutre/stats/fichiers/_gallery.pdf
> >>
> >>
> >> It would be very useful to many beginners, but probably also
> >> advanced users of R, to have an overview of R graph types with
> >> graphical examples  and associated R code.
> >>
> >> In order to facilitate the evolution of a large gallery, some sort
> >> of wiki environment might be most suitable, thus providing access to
> >> all users, but with limited maintenance costs for the provider.
> >>
> >> Do others agree this could be a valuable resource? Would anybody
> >> have the resources to host such an R graph gallery?
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >>
> >> Sander Oom.
> >>
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