[R] sprucing up the R homepage

[Finny Kuruvilla]

Tim is correct -- there was no post-processing done.  I've put the
R script that was used to generate the graphic here:

www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/acpclust.R

As you will see, it's essentially identical to Eric Lecoutre's
original script.  A few margins are slightly different and of course,
the Cairo library is now employed.

On my Linux machine, running "R --no-save < acpclust.R" produces the
png file that I posted earlier.

Best,
Finny Kuruvilla


On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:08:22PM +1000, Tim Churches wrote:
> Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Murrell <paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz>
> >>>>>>     on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:13:05 +0200 writes:
> > 
> >     Paul> Hi
> >     Paul> elw at stderr.org wrote:
> >     >> 
> >     >> 
> >     >>> So I applied my corrected margins to Tim's Cairo trick and voila:
> >     >>> http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rlogo_swiss.png
> >     >>> This is hands-down the best version, in my opinion!
> >     >> 
> >     >> Yes, it is definitely much nicer than the version on www.r-project.org 
> >     >> now.  :-)
> > 
> > 
> >     Paul> Much nicer.  Thanks guys!
> > 
> > Thanks indeed!
> > 
> > 
> >     Paul> Before we update the homepage, we should probably just
> >     Paul> check with the original "artist" (Eric Lecoutre,
> >     Paul> cc'ed) and we would need a description of the final
> >     Paul> technique you used to add as a comment to the code
> >     Paul> "behind" the image.
> > 
> > Yes, that was my "concern" too. After all, with R (and Sweave
> > and ...) advocating ``reproducible research'' in many ways,
> > I'd very much like a reproducible image there; we can live with
> > using non-R code for post processing (did I correctly get that you used
> > Imagemagick derived utilities)..
> 
> No, no post-processing. It just uses the Cairo device driver for R,
> which is a library available on CRAN (highy recommended). The only other
> change was some minor changes to margins in teh R code itself.
> 
> Tim C

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Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD
Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Homepage: http://www.anchorcross.org/people/kuruvilla/