Hi, On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsme...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote: > > The second area that I would like to pick your brains about is some new plugin > features. Perhaps you recall this short thread on how to deal with plugins > that do data.frame specific transformations: http://www.mail- > archive.com/rkward-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00779.html . The development > snapshots have some variants of a solution for that. To try it, frist make > sure that the under_development.pluginmap is activated under Settings- >>Configure RKWard->Plugins. > > You should see a new top-level menu called "Data". In this, there are two > variants of a "Sort data" plugin, and you will want to try each > a) while you are editing a data.frame, and the data.frame is the active window > and > b) while any other window is active. > As you will see, in case b), both plugins will seem identical. In case a), the > active data.frame is preselected in both plugins, but the first variant still > allows to select a different data.frame to sort. > > Key questions on that: > - Which variant of the plugin is preferrable?
To me the first variant is more transparent. The plugin remains same and whether or not a data frame is pre-selected is what changes. > - Do you think it is intuitively clear, when a data.frame is "active"? > Suggestions for improving this? For "post release" (unless Thomas wants this implemented pre-release) features: I would suggest allowing more variables to be selected for ordering the data frame. I generally use the following function to sort data frames: sortframe <- function (.df., ...) .df. [do.call (order, list (...)), ] # eg: # my.data <- with (my.data, sortframe (my.data, var1, var2)) We could call it "rk.sort.data.frame" and add it to public.R. Regards, -- Prasenjit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list RKWard-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel
