I am preparing a presentation on data analysis and I am provided with a 2-3 monitor and projector head-up. I would like to use one monitor(+projector) for code, one monitor(+projector) for console display and one monitor(+projector) for plots. Monitors are for me, projectors for the audience.
I would also like to run the code line-by-line (similar to the Ctr-Enter feature of RStudio); copy pasting code won't work. I want to use interactive graphics, analysis and plotting on-the-fly so any pre-done analysis won't work.
Is there any way to achieve this? Although Rstudio is a fantastic tool, a rather basic (and one might say easy) feature like panel detachment is not being developed although frequently requested. This would be probably the best solution to what I want.
UPDATE: Any OS (Win, Mac, Linux) will do.
You should be able to use the vanilla R GUI. Within that you have separate panels/windows for code, console, and plots (with as many plot windows as you want by calling a new device like quartz()). You can evaluate a line of code from the script using Cmd-Enter(mac) and Cntr-Enter (pc) plus the default settings highlight the line of interest. You could also use emacs in the same way, which I find much more powerful and fun.
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i am using RGL to produce a panel of multiple figures through the mfrow3d command.
for the most part, the html produced from the call to writeWebGL is exemplary.
the one caveat is that for multiple figures (be it 6 or 16), i have noticed a bit of lag when attempting to manipulate any one of these figures (to pan/zoom/look around).
an example can be found here: http://fluxions.dydx.ie:1338/schiz.html (warning, 100MB html file haha).
i wanted to ask people here if there is anything i can do in terms of using the "reuse" argument that may speed up performance.
additionally, i wanted to ask if there is any benefit to using rglWidgets and if there is a small example someone could provide in porting a writeWebGL call produced from the following:
https://johnmuschelli.com/WebGL_Interactive_Paper/supp_1/supp_1_wrap.Rmd
to rglwidgets (in hopes that the reuse argument in widgets may improve performance due to my use of mfrow3d).
i am not familiar on how to capture a multi-figure layout with multiple calls to contour3d as a scene that widgets can use.
dr duncan murdoch has gotten back to me and said there probably is not a way to do this, so i guess i will close it.
he is very helpful and i thank him for his support.
We are confused on the difference between R and R studio. We do the majority of our work on R studio but we were required to download R as well. Is regular R necessary for R studio to work?
Indeed, R is the real technology you are using. RStudio is an IDE which makes it easier and nicer. Still, it's just working on top of R.
You should be comparing RStudio to a regular text editor. You can use R without RStudio, you might for instance use a text editor plus a terminal window.
As mentioned by #NewUser Rstudio is simply an IDE, and other alternatives do exist. Check the answer to another question here for a long list of alternatives.
Rstudio is however the most popular IDE, and it comes with quite a few benefits. Auto completion of code, the interactive window for html applications, interactive graphics window, easy connection to various databases with automatic connection string complection etc. However some prefer to use alternative IDE's and you could even set up notebook++ to write and execute your code through the terminal.
The most obvious alternative is likely the R IDE. The minimalistic IDE that comes with the installation has some benefits as well, while being restrictive in others. The most obvious benefit is the far lower usage of memory for each window. My thesis supervisor is a hard-lover of the standard IDE, while a friend of mine simply uses it in cases where he needs to View(...) very large data, and for some reasons can't live with a summary output.
That said this question basically has nothing to do with programming, and is technically considered "off-topic" on stackoverflow as it is asking for recommendations. Other websites in the SO family are simply better for these type of questions.
R studio can be considered as a "skin" over base R, which makes it more user friendly. However, base R can certainly be used without R studio.
The main difference you will experience at a beginner level is that you will need to use functions such as View(), rather than cntrl clicking a dataframe etc.
As question, I have satisfied with what R and ggplot2 can do for static graph, but what about interactive graphs? How combine R and Protovis to make the graphs?
There is somethings called rwebvis but seems it is no longer active.
Any suggestion? Thanks.
Well, first you need a web server. Ooh, R has one of those now. Then you need some way of generating output on the web from R code - ooh, R has one of those too:
http://jeffreybreen.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/4-lines-of-r-to-get-you-started-using-the-rook-web-server-interface/
So you can then write R server pages that return JSON-encoded data that you can feed to Protovis - or if you want to get right up to date, to D3, which is Protovis++ and made of win.
Iplots is a fairly useful package that allows interactive graphing ( by this I mean selection linking between graphs, color linking, etc). It has some limitations and is not really made for producing plots as much as exploring data trends.
Acinonyx also was recently updated which is supposed to be an updated version of iplots, but from what I can tell it still has some work to do.
Not familiar with protovis or rwebvis.
There is a package from google called googlevis that enables some interactivity. This produces plots that are embeddable online. If you like protovis, the same author has another library called D3.
For running R on a webserver, I have been experimenting with RApache, which enables you to link your R installation to an apache server.
If the interactivity does not to be online, RStudio have a package called manipulate which may also be of interest.
I frequently find myself doing some analysis in R and then wanting to make a quick map. The standard plot() function does a reasonable job of quick, but I quickly find that I need to go to ggplot2 when I want to make something that looks nice or has more complex symbology requirements. Ggplot2 is great, but is sometimes cumbersome to convert a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame into the format required by Ggplot2. Ggplot2 can also be a tad slow when dealing with large maps that require specific projections.
It seems like I should be able to use Mapnik to plot spatial objects directly from R, but after exhausting my Google-fu, I cannot find any evidence of bindings. Rather than assume that such a thing doesn't exist, I thought I'd check here to see if anyone knows of an R - Mapnik binding.
The Mapnik FAQ explicitly mentions Python bindings -- as does the wiki -- with no mention of R, so I think you are correct that no (Mapnik-sponsored, at least) R bindings currently exist for Mapnik.
You might get a more satisfying (or at least more detailed) answer by asking on the Mapnik users list. They will know for certain if any projects exist to make R bindings for Mapnik, and if not, your interest may incite someone to investigate the possibility of generating bindings for R.
I would write the SpatialWotsitDataFrames to Shapefiles and then launch a Python Mapnik script. You could even use R to generate the Python script (package 'brew' is handy for making files from templates and inserting values form R).
Currently, I generate results from statistical analyses (e.g., a three-dimensional plot) and then "manually" move it to processing - a graphics programming language) where I can (with some simple coding) export an interactive java applet (e.g., allow the person viewing the plot to move in, out, and around the data points). Can I keep this whole process within R? Specifically, I want to create an applet (doesn't have to be Java but would need to be web embeddable, interactive (so not a movie), and not require the user to work in R or have to download things) that can be passed on.
Thanks.
Not totally clear on your requirements: can you be sure that the user will have R installed (e.g. can you run a script on their desktops to install everything first)? Does it have to run over the web?
The animation package (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/animation/) isn't interactive, but it can create moving images.
The iplots package is useful, although it requires R: http://rosuda.org/iPlots/iplots.html
Similarly, rggobi is extremely useful for interactive graphics, but it also requires R. You can read more http://www.jstatsoft.org/v30/b07/paper and http://www.ggobi.org/rggobi/.
A last example is biplotgui: http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/biplotgui/
I heard that there's a project in development to create Flash output from R, but I can't find anything about it.
Can I keep this whole process within R?
Check out GGobi:
GGobi is an open source visualization program for exploring high-dimensional data. It provides highly dynamic and interactive graphics such as tours, as well as familiar graphics such as the scatterplot, barchart and parallel coordinates plots. Plots are interactive and linked with brushing and identification.