[R] sprucing up the R homepage

[Peter Dalgaard]

Tim Churches wrote:
> Finny Kuruvilla <kuruvilla at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
>   
>> I've been a R-user for quite some time.  The graphic on the home page
>> looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased
>> transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help
>> for improving graphic quality.  I had to change the margins a bit, but
>> here is what it looks like:
>>
>> http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg
>>
>> Personally, I think it looks much better.  Because people so often
>> "judge a book by its cover" (subconsciously or consciously), I'm
>> wondering if anyone thinks this is worthy of replacing the current
>> version?  I want R to maximize R's appeal and albeit a small
>> improvement, hopefully this change will help a bit!
>>     
>
> If you run Eric Lecoutre's code to produce the graphic, available at http://www.r-project.org/misc/acpclust.R, unchanged except for the addition of these lines:
>
> library(Cairo)
> Cairo(600,400,file="Rlogo_swiss.png",type="png",bg="white")
>
> then you get this:
>
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/tchur/Rlogo_swiss.png
>
> which I think looks even better. Kudos to Simon Urbanek and Jeffrey Horner for the excellent Cairo device driver for R (and which works even without an X server, which makes it great for web server applications).
>
> Tim C
>   
Yes, this looks better. Finny's version looks oversmoothed in 
comparison. Out of academic curiosity, what happens if you diddle the 
parameters of the smooth-and-subsample technique to use a narrower smoother?

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