On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, David Forrest wrote: >On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Dan Bolser wrote: > >> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Romain Francois wrote: >... >> >It seems that the next improvement to the R Graph Gallery is >> >categorization of the graphics, that way each graph will be easier to >> >find. That step should be done *carefully* if we want to avoid the >> >opposite side-effect : graph not reachable through the categories. >... >> >> I would humbly suggest that the underlying data (graphs/categories/etc) be >> organized in such a way as to allow multiple categorizations. That way >> there could be any number of different categorizations applied to the same >> graphs, as one overall categorization may reflect only one particular >> viewpoint. > >Heartily seconded! > >> This way the chosen categories (however you decide to choose) would not be >> set in stone, but would be intimatly flexible. >> >> Also a single graph should be allowed to occur under multiple categories >> of a particular categorization. >... > >An example of non-hierarchical categorization is the >keyword-categorization method used by Wikis. See >http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?CategoryCategory for an example.
MediaWiki has a nice system of categorization, it also makes galleries of images which have been categorized. It could be nice to have a mediaWiki R page... > >If a graph could be in multiple categories (3d, social science, color, >publication ready/published) it could be identified with multiple keywords >and dynamically listed in each of the sub-galleries. > >Dave > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
