[R] Hosting a R Graph Gallery?

[Dan Bolser]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Romain Francois wrote:

>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

The code!


>+ 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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