I noticed a request on S-news today about support for scalable vector graphics (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/). Is there any interest in that for R? Is there anyone interested in doing it? -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On 19 Sep 2000, Douglas Bates wrote:> I noticed a request on S-news today about support for scalable vector > graphics (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/). Is there any interest in that > for R? Is there anyone interested in doing it?I noticed it on the W3C site a couple of weeks ago, and concluded that it was premature. (It is not yet a W3C standard, and look at the platforms that have tool support: mainly Windows, perhaps a Java2 SDK will also work.) I would give higher priority to a real PDF driver (not via bitmap()) at present, as these are already widely-available tools to use PDF. Brian -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> From: Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> > Date: 19 Sep 2000 10:41:42 -0500 > Lines: 3 > User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 > Sender: owner-r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Precedence: bulk > > I noticed a request on S-news today about support for scalable vector > graphics (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/). Is there any interest in that > for R? Is there anyone interested in doing it? > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >yes there definitely is some interest in doing this. I have a very simple example of this and MathML in the latest version of the XML package for R and S in the Omegahat tree. That has now been cleaned up so that it only needs libxml to do both DOM and event parsing and contains many more examples of how to use things. Actually, I was going to suggest an SVG driver as a project for a student in your statistical computing class. As I mentioned to David Nelson (the originator of the query on S-news) it is a relatively straightforward task: provide R functions to map XML elements to R graphics commands. There are examples for this and MathML on the Omegahat web site and I will create an R package of the XML library if anyone wants it soon. D. -- _______________________________________________________________ Duncan Temple Lang duncan@research.bell-labs.com Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies office: (908)582-3217 700 Mountain Avenue, Room 2C-259 fax: (908)582-3340 Murray Hill, NJ 07974-2070 http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/duncan "Languages shape the way we think, and determine what we can think about." Benjamin Whorf -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._