[R-wiki] graphics gallery in wiki?

[Philippe Grosjean]

Romain Francois wrote:
> Le 13.02.2006 11:53, Philippe Grosjean a écrit :
> 
>> Patrick Burns wrote:
>>
>>> I've had a brief email conversation with Romain
>>> Francois about the prospect of incorporating the
>>> R graphics gallery into the R-wiki.
>>>
>>> I, perhaps naively, thought that such a merger would
>>> be a good idea.  Romain thinks that there may be
>>> problems with it.
>>>
>>> Romain thought that putting it out for wider discussion
>>> might be a good idea.
>>>
>>> Patrick Burns
>>
>>
>> Well, I am definitely in favor of the inclusion of *static* web pages 
>> into the Wiki. However, the graph gallery is very dynamic. So, it 
>> would certainly be difficult to include it without loosing nice 
>> features developed by Français Romain. 
> 
> RGG needs php, javascript and mysql to run. I would like to keep the 
> dynamic of the website.
> But I agree that more (wiki-like) interactivity could be a good idea.
> 
>> The best approach would be to link the two sites as much as possible
> 
> * When the R help files will be wikified, i'll link from source code of 
> the graphics to the wiki. Currently, i link to some outdated help files.
> * There is also the 'See also' part under each graph that currently 
> points to .. nothing. Maybe I can allow users to make links between some 
> graphs and some wiki contribution, for example the graph 2 by Eric 
> Lecoutre could link to a wiki page about PCA
> 
>> , and perhaps to look at a common presentation (i.e., common cascaded 
>> style sheets). 
> 
> This is an idea.
> What about, as a replacement to the text 'R Wiki' on top right of the 
> wiki, some picture, inspired from the R logo. RGG has :
> http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/images/superHeader_1.png
> http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/images/midHeader_1.png

Yes... just that it requires to hack the DokuWiki engine. François, 
would you design such an image suitable for the R Wiki?

Philippe

>> But this is just my own idea, and of course, I am open to other 
>> propositions.
>> Best,
>>
>> Philippe Grosjean
> 
> I also am open to propositions/suggestions
> 
> Romain
>