[R-wiki] graphics gallery in wiki?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Might be nice to have both the R code and the HTML-ified R code
links or else have neither with just a message to click on graphic
to get code -- in which case the user can get both from the RGG site.

On 2/13/06, Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> OK, now the integration between the R Wiki and the R Graph Gallery is
> almost completelly done. Romain and myself have added this:
>
> 1) A link to a wiki page for each graph in the R Graph gallery
>
> 2) The Wiki page relating to a given graph in the R Graph Gallery are in
> the section 'graph_gallery:graphXX', where XX is the number of the graph
> in the gallery. The page displays the graph (with a link to the
> corresponding page when you click on it), a link to the R code to
> generate this graph and a "Wiki discussion" section where people can add
> comments, further code, examples, etc... (see for instance
> http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/doku.php?id=graph_gallery:graph51)
>
> 3) The corresponding pages are only created when someone add comments in
> the Wiki. If a page does not exist yet, a click from the Graph Gallery
> on the 'wiki page' link shows a "this topic does not exist yet" page...
> and you can click "Create this page" to create it. It is created from a
> template with all the required code already introduced. The reasons for
> not creating these pages automatically: we have only pages with material
> in the index, and no need to synch with the R Graph Gallery database.
>
> 4) A specific Wiki plugin generates the HTML code for the image and the
> link. Its syntax is very simple: {{arg>RGraph}}, and it does the rest
> for you!
>
> 5) For linking to graphs in the R Graph Gallery from elsewhere in the
> Wiki, I have added "interwiki" shortcut. You just have to type
> [[rgg>XX]] (where XX is the number of the graph) and you got a link to
> that page with a nice little bargraph icon in front of it. This is the
> same for linking to R code corresponding to the graph: you use just
> [[rggcode>XX]]. You can see this in:
> http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:specialformat
>
> Best,
>
> Philippe Grosjean
>
> P.S.: for further integration, we should just look at an harmonization
> of the CSS between the two sites... and also on the colors for the code
> syntax coloring.
>
> P.S.2: I also added convenient interwiki shortcuts for packages on CRAN,
> with little package icons. Try for instance [[rp>abind]],
> [[rpindex>abind]] & [[rppdf>abind]] (see also in the wiki:specialformat
> page)
>
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> Romain Francois wrote:
> > (...)
> >
> >>>
> >>> I agree. That solution is the easiest, and i think the better.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to add new commands to the wiki, such as <gg 25> that
> >>> will add the corresponding image, ie :
> >>> http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/graphiques/graph_25.png.
> >>> Or <ggc 25> to call the source code, ie :
> >>> http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/sources/source_25.R or the html
> >>> ready http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/highlight/high_25.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, there is the "interwiki" feature that rewrites links like
> >> [[wp>wiki]] to link to Wikipedia, topic "wiki". I'll see how I can add
> >> something to link to graphs and code.
> >>
> >> By the way, for the code in the R graph gallery, I suggest you use the
> >> same modified GeSHi engine with R syntax highlighting that I am
> >> designing for the Wiki. It provides links to R functions man pages and
> >> nice syntax coloring of code. It is a PHP script. So, easy to integrate.
> >>
> >> Currently, I am fighting with it to allow a better formatting of code
> >> (for instance, do not colorize arguments names similar to function
> >> names, as if they were functions, like in: x <- matrix(1:9, nrow = 3),
> >> where 'nrow' should not be colorized as a function, although the
> >> 'nrow()' function exists in a different context).
> >
> > I know that kind of fights, highlight did the same. There is also a
> > problem with the functions withs dots, like as.numeric, etc ..
> > It is difficult to tell these softwares that as.numeric is a keyword
> > when as and numeric are also. I came up with a simple bash script that
> > removes everything like "</span>.<span"
> >
> >> I'll send you the customized GeSHi engine as soon as I will finish
> >> this fine-tuning.
> >
> > Great, Thanks.
> > And if we end up with the same css file, that will consolidate the
> > bridge between the two places.
> >
> >>> Where would i link. I created
> >>> http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/doku.php?id=rgg
> >>> So maybe i can use http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/doku.php?id=rgg:25
> >>> Tell me if it is better to put that some place else, maybe
> >>> snippets:graphics-misc ?
> >>
> >> Take care that the final URL will be different from
> >> http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki.
> >
> > I know, that will not be too difficult to change in RGG. I just have to
> > be synchronized.
> >
> >> I will dedicate a server for the R wiki at my University. Also, it is
> >> most probable that we end up with something like
> >> http://wiki.r-project.org, or http://www.r-project.org/wiki.
> >
> > The first one looks really cool
> >
> >> For the location of the pages, I suggest something like:
> >> graph_gallery:graph25. 'rgg' is not informative enough. So the
> >> *temporary* link should be:
> >> http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/doku.php?id=graph_gallery:graph25
> >
> > Ok, i'll make the changes.
> >
> >> The simplest way is to let create a page from this link (you first
> >> have a message that the page does not exists, suggesting you to create
> >> it). Then, I could add a template with a default title, a common text
> >> and the link to both the graph and the corresponding code (once the
> >> "interwiki" feature will be added) in that template.
> >>
> >> I really think it is the best solution: we continue to use your
> >> excellent graph gallery engine, and we allow users to puts comments in
> >> the best place for that: the R wiki.
> >
> > And yet, it is so simple
> >
> >> Philippe
> >
> >
>
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