ggvis is an excellent option to do this kind of stuff.

The only limitation currently is that all sorts of interactivity (tooltips,
brushing etc.) are done on the server side using Shiny. So you have to
upload your HTML to a shiny server for the interactivity to work.

Best,
Ramnath


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Ramnath Vaidyanathan
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Desautels Faculty of Management
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Greg Snow <538280@gmail.com> wrote:

> Another option that is in developement, but may do what you want is
> ggvis (http://ggvis.rstudio.com/).  I have seen an example of brushing
> created with ggvis that can then be embedded in a web page.  I am not
> sure if you can send the html and support files directly to someone
> without R (probably Rstudio) or if you need to upload it to a server
> for others to see, but the later is still an option for collaborators
> who do not have R installed.
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Shi, Tao <shidaxia@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thank you very much, Greg and Ramnath, for the pointers!  I'll explore
> more.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:10 AM, Ramnath Vaidyanathan <
> ramnath.vaidyanathan@mcgill.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > There are plugins for rCharts that help you create custom charts.
> >
> > Here is a scatterplot matrix example
> >
> > http://mostlyconjecture.com/2014/02/09/scatterplot-matrix-with-rcharts/
> >
> >
> > It doesn't support brushing, but I think it won't be hard adding that
> behavior if you contact its author.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Best,
> > Ramnath
> >
> >
> >
> > ______________________________________
> > Ramnath Vaidyanathan
> > Assistant Professor of Operations Management
> > Desautels Faculty of Management
> > 1001 Sherbrooke Street West
> > Montreal, QC H3A 1G5
> > Ph: +1 (514) 398-1457
> > ______________________________________
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Greg Snow <538280@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is the TkBrush function in the TeachingDemos package that gives
> >>brushing in a scatterplot matrix using a Tk interface rather than
> >>ggobi.  There is also the iplots package which allows you to create
> >>multiple scatterplots, histograms, boxplots, barcharts, etc. and
> >>points selected in any one of the plots will then be highlighted in
> >>all the others.  Both of those solutions require R to be installed.
> >>
> >>I don't know of any way to get what you want without installing at
> >>least one of ggobi or R (or some other program of similar complexity
> >>to install).
> >>
> >>On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Shi, Tao <shidaxia@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>> hi list,
> >>>
> >>> I'm comparing the changes of ~100 analytes in multiple treatment
> conditions.  I plotted them in several different xy scattter plots.  It
> would be nice if I mouse over one point on one scatter plot, the label of
> the analyte on that scatter plot AS WELL AS on all other scatter plots will
> be automatically shown.  I know brushing in rggobi does this, but its
> interface is not good and it needs R or ggobi to run (I want send the
> results to the collaborators and let them to play with it without the need
> of installing R or ggobi on their machine).  rCharts is nice but so far it
> can only create one scatter plot at a time.
> >>>
> >>> Any good suggestions?
> >>>
> >>> Many thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Tao
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>--
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> >>
>
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