[R] R and Interactive Visualizations

2013-11-22 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Dear All, I use several R libraries (ggplot2, igraph etc...) for producing static visualizations. However, I'd like to be able to go beyond this. Things I may like to be able to achieve (relying on R as much as possible): 1) network visualizations such that when you click on a node, you see

[R] R and Interactive Visualizations

2013-11-22 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Dear All, I use several R libraries (ggplot2, igraph etc...) for producing static visualizations. However, I'd like to be able to go beyond this. Things I may like to be able to achieve (relying on R as much as possible): 1) network visualizations such that when you click on a node, you see its

Re: [R] R and Interactive Visualizations

2013-11-22 Thread Bryan Hanson
I think you will need to do this in a web page running java. So you need a way to link your R stuff to java, possibly back and forth depending upon exactly what you end up doing. You've found some pages already. But look also at shiny and d3. http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/ http://d3js.org/

Re: [R] R and Interactive Visualizations

2013-11-22 Thread Greg Snow
For task #1, if you have the coordinates where the nodes were plotted then you can just pass this information along with the meta data to the identify function (assuming base graphics). If you want the metadata to only appear for the current point (disappear when leave that point) then look at

Re: [R] R and Interactive Visualizations

2013-11-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 22/11/2013 10:06 AM, Lorenzo Isella wrote: Dear All, I use several R libraries (ggplot2, igraph etc...) for producing static visualizations. However, I'd like to be able to go beyond this. Things I may like to be able to achieve (relying on R as much as possible): 1) network visualizations