Re: [R] Embedding Audio Files in Interactive Graphs
Hi Michael Lawrence wrote: On 9/4/07, Sam Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply Bruno. No - as I said, I know how to do that - the movie15 and the multimedia package are basically the same, and it is relatively straightforward to get an audio file into a pdf with them. However, real interactivity is not easily achieved in latex IMO (as it's not its purpose). At least I'm hoping for a bit more flexibility. R seems like a better place to do interactivity, and with the field of information visualisation pointing out that interactivity is a very useful element for investigation of data it seems that clicking around graphical displays may become more and more popular in time. In my field I'm interested in audio data, and so simple interactive visual and auditory displays would be great. A (very useful) start would be 5 separate waveform plots that would play their appropriate sounds when clicked. More complex figures could plot in a 2d space and allow selection of data points or ranges perhaps. I love R for graphics and for Sweave though, and would like to use it if possible - ideally it would be to produce a figure that included the appropriate audiofiles and interactive scripts, which could then be incorporated into a latex document \includegraphics. However, from the deafening silence on this list it seems like I may be attempting to push a square block through a round hole unfortunately. Seems I am back to Matlab and handle graphics - but it won't do this properly either. Lots of things can be embedded into PDF documents, like javascript, flash and svg. Maybe it would be feasible to use the gridSVG package to output some graphics as svg with javascript to play the sounds and embed that into a pdf? The short answer is that R cannot do this sort of thing and is unlikely to be able to do it anytime soon. The basic problem is that core R graphics has no concept of animation, audio, hyperlinks, etc AND there is no way to access these features on devices that do have these concepts (e.g., PDF). It would be nice to change that, but it is a large redesign problem that is not anywhere near the top of anyone's todo list (to my knowledge). As Michael mentioned, the gridSVG package allows you to draw using the grid package and access some of the fancier SVG features (including embedding scripts). It has its own problems of course, but may be worth trying. Paul Cheers Sam On 03/09/2007, at 5:39 PM, Bruno C.. wrote: Are you asking on how to include an audio file into a pdf? This is already feasible via latex and the movie 15 package ;) Ciao Hi R-ers, I'm wondering if anyone has investigated a method for embedding audio files in R graphs (pdf format), and allowing their playback to be triggered interactively (by clicking on a graph element for instance). I know how to do this in latex pdfs with the multimedia package, but it seems that R would provide a more appropriate platform for many reasons. Thanks for any help you can provide. Sam Ferguson Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning The University of Sydney __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Leggi GRATIS le tue mail con il telefonino i-mode™ di Wind http://i-mode.wind.it/ -- Sam Ferguson Faculty of Architecture The University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 2 93515910 0410 719535 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Embedding Audio Files in Interactive Graphs
On 9/4/07, Sam Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply Bruno. No - as I said, I know how to do that - the movie15 and the multimedia package are basically the same, and it is relatively straightforward to get an audio file into a pdf with them. However, real interactivity is not easily achieved in latex IMO (as it's not its purpose). At least I'm hoping for a bit more flexibility. R seems like a better place to do interactivity, and with the field of information visualisation pointing out that interactivity is a very useful element for investigation of data it seems that clicking around graphical displays may become more and more popular in time. In my field I'm interested in audio data, and so simple interactive visual and auditory displays would be great. A (very useful) start would be 5 separate waveform plots that would play their appropriate sounds when clicked. More complex figures could plot in a 2d space and allow selection of data points or ranges perhaps. I love R for graphics and for Sweave though, and would like to use it if possible - ideally it would be to produce a figure that included the appropriate audiofiles and interactive scripts, which could then be incorporated into a latex document \includegraphics. However, from the deafening silence on this list it seems like I may be attempting to push a square block through a round hole unfortunately. Seems I am back to Matlab and handle graphics - but it won't do this properly either. Lots of things can be embedded into PDF documents, like javascript, flash and svg. Maybe it would be feasible to use the gridSVG package to output some graphics as svg with javascript to play the sounds and embed that into a pdf? Cheers Sam On 03/09/2007, at 5:39 PM, Bruno C.. wrote: Are you asking on how to include an audio file into a pdf? This is already feasible via latex and the movie 15 package ;) Ciao Hi R-ers, I'm wondering if anyone has investigated a method for embedding audio files in R graphs (pdf format), and allowing their playback to be triggered interactively (by clicking on a graph element for instance). I know how to do this in latex pdfs with the multimedia package, but it seems that R would provide a more appropriate platform for many reasons. Thanks for any help you can provide. Sam Ferguson Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning The University of Sydney __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Leggi GRATIS le tue mail con il telefonino i-mode di Wind http://i-mode.wind.it/ -- Sam Ferguson Faculty of Architecture The University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 2 93515910 0410 719535 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Embedding Audio Files in Interactive Graphs
Thanks for your reply Bruno. No - as I said, I know how to do that - the movie15 and the multimedia package are basically the same, and it is relatively straightforward to get an audio file into a pdf with them. However, real interactivity is not easily achieved in latex IMO (as it's not its purpose). At least I'm hoping for a bit more flexibility. R seems like a better place to do interactivity, and with the field of information visualisation pointing out that interactivity is a very useful element for investigation of data it seems that clicking around graphical displays may become more and more popular in time. In my field I'm interested in audio data, and so simple interactive visual and auditory displays would be great. A (very useful) start would be 5 separate waveform plots that would play their appropriate sounds when clicked. More complex figures could plot in a 2d space and allow selection of data points or ranges perhaps. I love R for graphics and for Sweave though, and would like to use it if possible - ideally it would be to produce a figure that included the appropriate audiofiles and interactive scripts, which could then be incorporated into a latex document \includegraphics. However, from the deafening silence on this list it seems like I may be attempting to push a square block through a round hole unfortunately. Seems I am back to Matlab and handle graphics - but it won't do this properly either. Cheers Sam On 03/09/2007, at 5:39 PM, Bruno C.. wrote: Are you asking on how to include an audio file into a pdf? This is already feasible via latex and the movie 15 package ;) Ciao Hi R-ers, I'm wondering if anyone has investigated a method for embedding audio files in R graphs (pdf format), and allowing their playback to be triggered interactively (by clicking on a graph element for instance). I know how to do this in latex pdfs with the multimedia package, but it seems that R would provide a more appropriate platform for many reasons. Thanks for any help you can provide. Sam Ferguson Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning The University of Sydney __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Leggi GRATIS le tue mail con il telefonino i-mode™ di Wind http://i-mode.wind.it/ -- Sam Ferguson Faculty of Architecture The University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 2 93515910 0410 719535 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] Embedding Audio Files in Interactive Graphs
Hi R-ers, I'm wondering if anyone has investigated a method for embedding audio files in R graphs (pdf format), and allowing their playback to be triggered interactively (by clicking on a graph element for instance). I know how to do this in latex pdfs with the multimedia package, but it seems that R would provide a more appropriate platform for many reasons. Thanks for any help you can provide. Sam Ferguson Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning The University of Sydney __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
