I've been a R-user for quite some time. The graphic on the home page looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help for improving graphic quality. I had to change the margins a bit, but here is what it looks like: http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg Personally, I think it looks much better. Because people so often "judge a book by its cover" (subconsciously or consciously), I'm wondering if anyone thinks this is worthy of replacing the current version? I want R to maximize R's appeal and albeit a small improvement, hopefully this change will help a bit! Regards, Finny Kuruvilla -- Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Homepage: http://www.anchorcross.org/people/kuruvilla/
Although overall the new graphic looks better --- cleaner, clearer --- I think that the clustering graphic (tree, bottom left) has taken a step backward. cheers, Rolf Turner On 26/09/2007, at 2:53 PM, Finny Kuruvilla wrote:> I've been a R-user for quite some time. The graphic on the home page > looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased > transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help > for improving graphic quality. I had to change the margins a bit, but > here is what it looks like: > > http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg > > Personally, I think it looks much better. Because people so often > "judge a book by its cover" (subconsciously or consciously), I'm > wondering if anyone thinks this is worthy of replacing the current > version? I want R to maximize R's appeal and albeit a small > improvement, hopefully this change will help a bit! > > Regards, > Finny Kuruvilla > > -- > Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD > Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital > Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT > Homepage: http://www.anchorcross.org/people/kuruvilla/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.###################################################################### Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confidenti...{{dropped}}
Finny Kuruvilla <kuruvilla@post.harvard.edu> wrote:> > I've been a R-user for quite some time. The graphic on the home page > looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased > transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help > for improving graphic quality. I had to change the margins a bit, but > here is what it looks like: > > http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg > > Personally, I think it looks much better. Because people so often > "judge a book by its cover" (subconsciously or consciously), I'm > wondering if anyone thinks this is worthy of replacing the current > version? I want R to maximize R's appeal and albeit a small > improvement, hopefully this change will help a bit!If you run Eric Lecoutre's code to produce the graphic, available at http://www.r-project.org/misc/acpclust.R, unchanged except for the addition of these lines: library(Cairo) Cairo(600,400,file="Rlogo_swiss.png",type="png",bg="white") then you get this: http://members.optusnet.com.au/tchur/Rlogo_swiss.png which I think looks even better. Kudos to Simon Urbanek and Jeffrey Horner for the excellent Cairo device driver for R (and which works even without an X server, which makes it great for web server applications). Tim C
It's a good idea to spruce up the graphics on R's webpage, but before we get too excited about improving how they are drawn, shouldn't we think about improving what has been drawn? The original graphic showed off a wide variety of graphics which can be drawn with R, all applied to the swiss fertility dataset. Are these the kinds of graphics we would want to draw in a real analysis? I think a single parallel coordinate plot is more informative than this collection and would be easier to explain. If you want to try it for yourself, use the package iplots with data (swiss) and then ipcp(swiss). So maybe someone should suggest graphics from another dataset to adorn the webpage and demonstrate R's graphics capabilities. Antony Unwin Professor of Computer-Oriented Statistics and Data Analysis, Mathematics Institute, University of Augsburg, [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Personally I think the homepage needs a much better image not a "nice" version of what is currently displayed. Time Series is completely missing at the moment. Including something from the fSeries .garchFit() routine would be a great to see (well done to the RMetrics team on making it look good). David Merritt University of Bristol, UK Dept of Maths, Stats Group, Postgraduate Student Finny Kuruvilla-3 wrote:> > I've been a R-user for quite some time. The graphic on the home page > looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased > transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help > for improving graphic quality. I had to change the margins a bit, but > here is what it looks like: > > http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg > > Personally, I think it looks much better. Because people so often > "judge a book by its cover" (subconsciously or consciously), I'm > wondering if anyone thinks this is worthy of replacing the current > version? I want R to maximize R's appeal and albeit a small > improvement, hopefully this change will help a bit! > > Regards, > Finny Kuruvilla > > -- > Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD > Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital > Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT > Homepage: http://www.anchorcross.org/people/kuruvilla/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >-- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/sprucing-up-the-R-homepage-tf4519736.html#a12958155 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Received Sun 30 Sep 2007 4:11am +1000 from DavidM.UK:> > Personally I think the homepage needs a much better image not a "nice" > version of what is currently displayed.[...]> Finny Kuruvilla-3 wrote: > > > > [...] The graphic on the home page > > looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased > > transformations [...]A surprise each time I visit the R home page would be "nice". The gallery of R graphics could be a good source of random graphics, with a link to the explanation in the gallery. Regards, Graham