[R] adding hyperlinked text to pdf plot

[Paul Murrell]

Hi

On 6/12/2011 9:10 a.m., Justin Fincher wrote:
> For example, say I am plotting some data that is genomic and therefore
> maps to a specific locus on the human genome, like a gene.  I was
> hoping to have the title of the plot display the gene name, but have
> it be a link so that clicking on it would take you to those
> coordinates on a public browser, like USCS's genome browser.  So
> basically, I was hoping to have text in a plot generated by R function
> as a normal html-style link.

The 'gridSVG' package will let you associate a hyperlink with text (or 
anything else) and produce SVG that can then be viewed in a web page (as 
long as your plot is a 'lattice' or 'ggplot2' one).

Paul

> - Fincher
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 14:09, Yihui Xie<xie at yihui.name>  wrote:
>> It seems I missed the context of this post -- who is "you", and what
>> is "something other than the URL"?
>>
>> I feel the tikzDevice package should be an option for the task.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Justin Fincher<fincher at cs.fsu.edu>  wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>    I have read that if you put a URL in the text of a plot being saved
>>> into pdf, the result is a functional hyperlink. I am interested in
>>> having text in a plot that is linked to a URL, but I would like the
>>> text to be something other than the URL. Is this possible? Thank you.
>>>
>>> - Fincher
>>>
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