Re: [R] When is *interactive* data visualization useful to use?

2011-02-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Tom Hopper tomhop...@gmail.com wrote: Tal, One interactive capability that I have repeatedly wished for (but never taken the time to develop with the existing R tools) is the ability to interactively zoom in on and out of a data set, I believe that you can do

Re: [R] When is *interactive* data visualization useful to use?

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Hopper
Tal, One interactive capability that I have repeatedly wished for (but never taken the time to develop with the existing R tools) is the ability to interactively zoom in on and out of a data set, and to interactively create call-outs of sections of the data. Much of the data that I deal with

Re: [R] When is *interactive* data visualization useful to use?

2011-02-14 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/2011 08:21 PM, Claudia Beleites wrote: Dear Tal, dear list, I think the importance of interactive graphics has a lot do with how visual your scientific discipline works. I'm spectroscopist, and I think we are very visually oriented: if

Re: [R] When is *interactive* data visualization useful to use?

2011-02-14 Thread Rainer M Krug
Help Subject: Re: [R] When is *interactive* data visualization useful to use? On 02/11/2011 08:21 PM, Claudia Beleites wrote: Dear Tal, dear list, I think the importance of interactive graphics has a lot do with how visual your scientific discipline works. I'm spectroscopist, and I

Re: [R] When is *interactive* data visualization useful to use?

2011-02-14 Thread Greg Snow
There are some interactive graphics tools in the TeachingDemos package (tkBrush allows brushing, tkexamp helps you create your own interactive graphics, etc.). There are also the iplots package, the rgl package (spinning in 3 dimonsions), 'tkrplot' package, the fgui package, the playwith

Re: [R] When is *interactive* data visualization useful to use?

2011-02-11 Thread Mike Marchywka
From: tal.gal...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:26:16 +0200 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] When is *interactive* data visualization useful to use? Hello all, Before getting to my question, I would like to apologize for asking

Re: [R] When is *interactive* data visualization useful to use?

2011-02-11 Thread Claudia Beleites
Dear Tal, dear list, I think the importance of interactive graphics has a lot do with how visual your scientific discipline works. I'm spectroscopist, and I think we are very visually oriented: if I think of a spectrum I mentally see a graph. So for that kind of work, I need a lot of

[R] When is *interactive* data visualization useful to use?

2011-02-10 Thread Tal Galili
Hello all, Before getting to my question, I would like to apologize for asking this question here. My question is not directly an R question, however, I still find the topic relevant to R community of users - especially due to only * partial* (current) support for interactive data visualization