[R] graphic question

[Ross Ihaka]

Mama Benchaffai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to use R for some data mining project , and was wondering if it has
> any intercative graphical features?
> For example, is it possible to plot a histogram and be able to select a
> specific point on it and have all the data about it? or select a specific
> area in a curve and have all the data about it? or possibilities to zoom
> out and in?

Simon Urbanek previewed something called iPlots in Vienna last month.
It may well provide at least some of what you want.  You can find a
paper by Simon and Martin Theus in the DSC proceedings.

http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/Drafts/UrbanekTheus.pdf

I'm not sure when the release will happen.

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