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.
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I'm using R (3.x) within Jupyter to perform some statistical analysis of a clinical study.
The flow of subjects is pretty complex and I would like to draw the Patient flow chart directly in my notebook. Like this one :
Why ?
To make sure the subjects count is consistent with the code, and not having to maintain sync between the R code and this figure.
I've tried DiagrammeR (won't install for some reason), RGrahpviz (too complex and doesn't meet the requirements).
A perfect solution might come from mermaid but I couldn't find a way to have it integrated with my Jupyter/R notebooks.
I'm not using a python Jupyter notebook but a R notebook.
You have mentioned that DiagrammeR won't install, but I would still provide one solution using DiagrammeR anyway--in case you have solved the installation issue. Suppose after you have made the graph using DimagrammeR and obtained a grViz object named myGraph. To display it under jupyter notebook, I use the following
require('DiagrammeR')
require('DiagrammeRsvg') #export grViz objects to svg
require('IRdisplay')
mySVG<-export_svg(myGraph)
display_svg(data=mySVG)
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.
I am trying to create a simple data viewing gui for neurophysiological recordings from EEG or MEG using R in which one could select any time point in the recorded timeseries and see the corresponding interpolated scalp distribution of the data.
What this means is that I have two graphs that need to be constantly updated on the basis of user input and I find R's regular graphs to be too slow for this task. I have recently found the acinonyx graphics device which is indeed much faster than R's regular one, but I have not been able to embed graphs made by this device in a gui using gWidgets, nor could I find any documentation on how to embed it in a gui using other packages.
Is this possible at all? If not, what are the options for faster graphic devices in R that can be embedded into a gui?
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'm helping my friend make a website. He previously used R language to generate statistical charts. Now he want to generate some dynamic chart so that when users move mouse over certain part of the chart there will be some description/complementary information pops up for them to read. What kind of technology/tools/packages I can use for this purpose?
PS: I've explored some possible ways, yet none of them fits my needs. I've tried rggobi + ggobi. They can't coz they are not for web applications. iPlot can't do it coz it generates histogram only. I've thought about asking R produces some intermediate date which I can pass to some JavaScript packages like HighCharts. Yet, apparently R is much powerful than JS. R can generates some advanced type of charts which JS just can't do.
You should use R to generate the data and then export it in a format that a javascript framework for graphs can understand.
This way you could benefit from the advanced statistical analysis provided by R and the presentation layer of javascript.
Lots of solutions exist for this problem, but i've heard lots of good things about Raphael and its chart plugin, which you may want to investigate
The playwith package offers facilities to manipulate rgl graphics. A couple of links:
http://code.google.com/p/playwith/w/list
http://www.r-bloggers.com/playing-with-the-%E2%80%98playwith%E2%80%99-package/
Look at the sendplot package or the RSVGTipsDevice package.