[R] Help on creating custom financial time series graphs

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


> Hmmm,
> 
> Not quite the response I was hoping for ;0(
> 
> I chose R because of the cross platform capability. But I think it will be
> too difficult to re-write my functions in R.
> 
> Basically, the porting from Win32 GDI API won't be to GraphApp will not be
> too difficult if any one can help with one of the ff:
> 
> 1. GraphApp to Win32 GDI func mapping (this would REALLY help)


GraphApp is not used by R for cross-platform graphics.  R has its own
graphics engine.  This has a rough API described in
R/src/include/Rgraphics.h, although this is currently under review. 
This API provides the basic graphical primitives (lines, curves, text,
..) plus some statistics-specific bells and whistles.  Unfortunately, I
don't know the Win32 GDI so I can't provide a mapping.


> 2. A way to access the handle to a Graph Window (is this a HWND struct ?)


I may be missing something, but that wouldn't be cross-platform would
it?


> 3. How to write an R extension (I hear this is unnecessarily difficult to
> implement) that draws to the screen


I think the general support for writing R extensions is pretty good. 
The support for writing R extensions _that draw to the screen_ is not so
good (hence the current review).  Without the Win32 GDI to R graphics
API mapping, this would probably mean quite a bit of work for you.

4.  Rewriting in R.  This could well be a faster option than 3.  If you
like, you could send me (or point me to) an example of the graphs you
are creating and I could try to give you a basic R example that provides
the features you want to implement.

Hope that helps.

Paul
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