[ Cool how nobody cared about Fritz' request not to post ideas yet :) ] [ I broadly share Oleg's "wouldn't it be nice to have better plot devices" wish. But I don't think it is a three-month summer target, and it's not on the side of things Fritz / Manuel prefer as it is infrastructure rather than pure statistics ... Then again, maybe we should put that up to a wider discussion. I like 'infrastructure' as R is a platform to me. ]
On 19 February 2009 at 09:33, Simon Urbanek wrote: | If primitive 3d scatterplot interactivity is all you want, go with | rggobi. It's GTK and has all this already and much more. However, | ggobi also shows why GTK is not a good choice for general interactive | graphics toolkit - it [GTK] is slow and lacks reasonable graphics | support. OpenGL is IMHO a better way to go since IG don't really | leverage any of the widgets (you get them for free via R widgets | packages anyway) and OpenGL gives you excellent speed, alpha-support | and anti-aliasing etc. I don't want to turn this into an all-out 'vi versus emacs' slugfest but: -- GTk it not the only choice, and I have been very happy with Qt (and Qwt for a simple yet nice plot widget) on both Linux and Windows; I don't have access to a Mac so I didn't test there. -- Qt supports OpenGL natively. The demos are very impressive (for OpenGL as well as the other widgets). -- Deepayan has been working on Qt-based code to enhance R, as that appears to be 'unannounced' I won't post the SVN repo but allow me to state that the code already ran all (or almost all) examples from the lattice book. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel