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2013-4 Generating Structured and Labelled SVG

April 9, 2013
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This article discusses the importance of providing structure and labelling within SVG code, particularly when the SVG code is generated indirectly by a high-level system and when the SVG code describes a complex image such as a statistical plot. We … Continue reading

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2013-3 Generating unique names in gridSVG

April 2, 2013
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The gridSVG package exports grid images to the SVG image format for viewing on the web. This article describes the problems associated with retaining grid object names in SVG element id attributes. In addition, new features in gridSVG that allow … Continue reading

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2013-1 TimingManager: Animation Sequences in JavaScript

January 8, 2013
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The TimingManager library is a tool written in JavaScript used to apply animations in a web browser. It is not concerned with creation or modification of animation timing information, and delegates those tasks to R via the animaker package. Primarily … Continue reading

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2012-12 Post-Processing grid Graphics

December 11, 2012
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Statistical plots drawn with the ggplot2 package generate numerous grid grobs and viewports which are labelled and organised into a coherent hierarchy. This report describes an example that shows how to manipulate the grobs and viewports in a ggplot2 plot … Continue reading

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2012-11 Generating Animation Sequence Descriptions

November 29, 2012
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This report describes the animaker package for generating descriptions of animation sequences. An animation sequence is composed by combining atomic animations in series to create sequence animations or in parallel to create track animations. Functions are provided for manipulating animation … Continue reading

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2012-10 Introducing the ‘selectr’ Package

November 26, 2012
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The selectr package translates a CSS selector into an equivalent XPath expression. This allows the use of CSS selectors to query XML documents using the XML package. Convenience functions are also provided to mimic functionality present in modern web browsers. … Continue reading

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2012-9 Writing grid Extensions

November 6, 2012
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New hook functions, makeContext() and makeContent(), have been added to the grid graphics package. These functions allow an alternative approach to developing custom grobs when a grob can only decide what to draw at drawing time rather than when the … Continue reading

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2012-7 A Structured Approach for Generating SVG

October 14, 2012
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The gridSVG package exports grid images to an SVG format for viewing on the web. This article describes a new development in the way that gridSVG produces the SVG output. The result is greater flexibility in how the SVG output … Continue reading

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2012-6 Working with the gridSVG Coordinate System

October 10, 2012
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The gridSVG package exports grid images to an SVG format for viewing on the web. This article describes new features in gridSVG that allow grid coordinate system information to be exported along with the image. This allows the SVG image … Continue reading

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2012-5 Voronoi Treemaps in R

September 19, 2012
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A Voronoi Treemap is a visualisation tool for displaying data with a hierarchical structure.  This article describes an open source implementation of Voronoi Treemaps in the R language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.  The article includes example usage … Continue reading

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