[R] sprucing up the R homepage

[Finny Kuruvilla]

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!

Best, 
Finny

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:35:40AM -0500, elw at stderr.org wrote:
> 
> 
> >>http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg
> 
> >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).
> 
> 
> It seems to have lost labels on the left, though... and there is some 
> oddness on the right edge, too, where the number "45" found in the other 
> two plot versions has been replaced with "V. De Gen..." - what looks like 
> part of someone's name or some other descriptor.  The "(1-3) 60%" under 
> the PCA 5 Vars section also intersects with part of a plot.
> 
> Overall the effect is better, but the fine details could use some 
> tweaking.
> 
> --elijah

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