[R-wiki] graphics gallery in wiki?

[Philippe Grosjean]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 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

Personnally, I like solution 3: it is just a question of writting a link 
to the wiki in RGG. If a page does not exists, it is easy to create it 
by clicking 'Create this page'.

The two last solutions are not very easy to do: either you need to 
reimplement stuff in the Wiki, or reimplement the Wiki in RGG. These are 
really two different servers, and it is better to manage them that way, 
I think.

Best,

Philippe

> 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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