Dear all, I have written a small set of functions for drawing graphical representations of R objects and evaluations of R expressions. It is mainly intended for pedagogical purposes. Here are some samples: http://panini.u-paris10.fr/~sloiseau/sampleGraphics.pdf The idea is to use some graphical conventions in order to make clear the abstract syntax and to explain function, extraction, recycling, type conversion, properties of data structures, etc. I would be very interested in your reactions and comments. I'm wondering if it may become a R package. Does something like this already exist? May it be useful? What improvement may be planned? Have you some idea for the name of such a package (visualR, seeR... ?) Best regards, Sylvain -- Sylvain Loiseau sylvain.loiseau at unicaen.fr Universit? de Caen Basse Normandie Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines MRSH - SH018 Esplanade de la Paix Campus 1 14032 Caen Cedex
Very nice. Certainly it would be welcome to see this packaged for widespread use. On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Sylvain Loiseau <sylvain.loiseau at unicaen.fr> wrote:> Dear all, > > I have written a small set of functions for drawing graphical representations of R objects and evaluations of R expressions. > > It is mainly intended for pedagogical purposes. Here are some samples: > > http://panini.u-paris10.fr/~sloiseau/sampleGraphics.pdf > > The idea is to use some graphical conventions in order to make clear the abstract syntax and to explain function, extraction, recycling, type conversion, properties of data structures, etc. > > I would be very interested in your reactions and comments. I'm wondering if it may become a R package. Does something like this already exist? May it be useful? What improvement may be planned? Have you some idea for the name of such a package (visualR, seeR... ?) > > Best regards, > Sylvain > -- > Sylvain Loiseau > sylvain.loiseau at unicaen.fr > > Universit? de Caen Basse Normandie > Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines > MRSH - SH018 > Esplanade de la Paix > Campus 1 > 14032 Caen Cedex > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >
Nice idea. But I think "visualR" or "seeR" are way too vague. How about "drawExpressions", or "showExpressions"? -Felix 2009/12/24 Sylvain Loiseau <sylvain.loiseau at unicaen.fr>:> Dear all, > > I have written a small set of functions for drawing graphical representations of R objects and evaluations of R expressions. > > It is mainly intended for pedagogical purposes. Here are some samples: > > http://panini.u-paris10.fr/~sloiseau/sampleGraphics.pdf > > The idea is to use some graphical conventions in order to make clear the abstract syntax and to explain function, extraction, recycling, type conversion, properties of data structures, etc. > > I would be very interested in your reactions and comments. I'm wondering if it may become a R package. Does something like this already exist? May it be useful? What improvement may be planned? Have you some idea for the name of such a package (visualR, seeR... ?) > > Best regards, > Sylvain > -- > Sylvain Loiseau > sylvain.loiseau at unicaen.fr > > Universit? de Caen Basse Normandie > Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines > MRSH - SH018 > Esplanade de la Paix > Campus 1 > 14032 Caen Cedex > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Felix Andrews / ??? Postdoctoral Fellow Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management (iCAM) Centre Fenner School of Environment and Society [Bldg 48a] The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia M: +61 410 400 963 T: + 61 2 6125 4670 E: felix.andrews at anu.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 00120C -- http://www.neurofractal.org/felix/