[R-wiki] graphics gallery in wiki?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Aside from how or where this would be accomplished,
I think it would be useful if each graphic had a one or two
paragraph explanation that walks a person through it.
There appears to be some facility right now in RGG but in
most cases more explanation is needed and as a result one
often does not really know what one is looking at.  I was thinking
of something like this explanation as what is desired:

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-February/086667.html

I guess the alternatives are:

- solicit such explanations from the graph submitters and add each
  such explanation by hand to RGG.

- have links from RGG to the wiki (and back in the other direction too)
  in which case the graph submitters could enter the info themself

- incorporate RGG functionality into the wiki

- incorporate wiki functionality into RGG

On 2/13/06, Romain Francois <francoisromain at free.fr> 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 Currently, i link to some outdated help files.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
> > 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
>
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