Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2011 - credit where it is due

2011-02-15 Thread Prof. John C Nash
In my reminder that GSoC project proposals are requested (to R wiki developers' projects page for GSoC 2011), I mentioned that Dirk Eddelbuettel had acted as leader for the R Foundation activity on GSoC prior to handing the torch to Claudia Beleites and I for this year. I should have mentioned t

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Friedrich Leisch wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:52:19 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: > [ Cool how nobody cared about Fritz' request not to post ideas yet :) ] Well, I kind of expected that ;-) See also below. > [ I broadly share Oleg's "wouldn't it be nice to hav

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-20 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 2/19/09, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: [...] > 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 gener

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:25:35 -0600, > Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: > On 20 February 2009 at 12:06, Friedrich Leisch wrote: > | > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:52:19 -0600, > | > Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: > | > | > [ Cool how nobody cared about Fritz' request not to pos

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 20 February 2009 at 12:06, Friedrich Leisch wrote: | > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:52:19 -0600, | > Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: | | > [ Cool how nobody cared about Fritz' request not to post ideas yet :) ] | | Well, I kind of expected that ;-) | | See also below. | | > [ I broadl

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:52:19 -0600, > Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: > [ Cool how nobody cared about Fritz' request not to post ideas yet :) ] Well, I kind of expected that ;-) See also below. > [ I broadly share Oleg's "wouldn't it be nice to have better plot devices" > wish

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
[ 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 rath

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urba...@r-project.org] Sent: 19 February 2009 14:34 To: Sklyar, Oleg (London) Cc: Friedrich Leisch; r-devel@r-project.org; manuel.eugs...@stat.uni-muenchen.de Subject: Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009 On Feb 19, 2009, at 6:38 , Sklyar, Oleg (London) wrote: Two i

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Sklyar, Oleg (London)
at.uni-muenchen.de; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009 > > Well, for the first idea, isn't it easy enough to fulfill zooming or > panning using getGraphicsEvent() in the grDevices package? For example > (using keys

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Yihui Xie
Well, for the first idea, isn't it easy enough to fulfill zooming or panning using getGraphicsEvent() in the grDevices package? For example (using keys +/-/Left/Right/Up/Down/* to zoom and pan): ## # a demo for zooming and panning in

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Sklyar, Oleg (London)
5:11 > To: Sklyar, Oleg (London) > Cc: Simon Urbanek; Friedrich Leisch; > manuel.eugs...@stat.uni-muenchen.de; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009 > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sklyar, Oleg (London) > wrote: > > I do think there i

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sklyar, Oleg (London) wrote: > I do think there is a need for an interactive graphics package for R. > There are also the GTK-based playwith, and latticist; unsure though whether they fit your requirements. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetwo

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Sklyar, Oleg (London)
age- > From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urba...@r-project.org] > Sent: 19 February 2009 14:34 > To: Sklyar, Oleg (London) > Cc: Friedrich Leisch; r-devel@r-project.org; > manuel.eugs...@stat.uni-muenchen.de > Subject: Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009 > > > On Feb 19

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 19, 2009, at 6:38 , Sklyar, Oleg (London) wrote: Two ideas: 1) A library for interactive plots in R R lacks functionality that would allow displaying of interactive plots with two distinct functionalities: zooming and panning. This functionality is extremely important for the analy

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Sklyar, Oleg (London)
Two ideas: 1) A library for interactive plots in R R lacks functionality that would allow displaying of interactive plots with two distinct functionalities: zooming and panning. This functionality is extremely important for the analysis of large, high frequency, data sets spanning over large r

Re: [Rd] Google summer of Code

2008-03-18 Thread friedrich . leisch
>> The R Foundation has not acted as a mentoring organization before, >> so everything is a little bit experimental for us . . . > > Is R-devel an appropriate place for GSoC communication, Fritz? My > message specific to Roxygen went unanswered.* Sorry for that, I already asked Manuel (one of my

Re: [Rd] Google summer of Code

2008-03-18 Thread Peter Danenberg
> The R Foundation has not acted as a mentoring organization before, > so everything is a little bit experimental for us . . . Is R-devel an appropriate place for GSoC communication, Fritz? My message specific to Roxygen went unanswered.* --- * https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008