Package: SVGAnnotation
Version: 0.9-0
Title: Tools for post-processing SVG plots created in R
Description: This package is an example of how we can post-process SVG
        files generated with R graphics, at present just those
        generated via the svg() function within R itself using the
        cairo library. (Support for RSVGDevice may be added in the
        future.) The idea is that we can add "effects" to the SVG
        components such as putting tooltips on the elements (points,
        bars, etc.) in the plot, animating points over "time" within
        one or more plots, changing colors of symbols within plots for
        simple linking. The package provides high-level facilities for
        annotating the plots, and also low-level facilities for finding
        plot regions, lattice panels and strips, determining
        coordinates of regions and so on. Others can use these to
        provide additional annotation functionality. This also provides
        facilities for adding a reference to a CSS file so that the
        appearance of certain types of elements can be controlled
        externally, e.g. links. This package contains JavaScript code
        for inteactive GUI components rendered via SVG. This is code
        written by Andreas Neumann and Andreas Winter and obtained from
        http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/gui. This differs from Tony
        Plate's RSVGTipsDevice as a) it uses the SVG device within R
        based on libcairo, and b) it does not use global variables and
        require tooltips and hyperrefs to be specified one at a time
        and before drawing each individual shape.  Instead, this
        approach allows us deal with all elements of an R plot and add
        SVG features to each of them. This package was put together as
        a proof of concept and example of how to go about doing this
        sort of post-processing to enhance R plots to make them
        interactive and dynamic/animated. More can be done and what has
        been done can be done better. Others are encouraged to submit
        enhancements, changes, etc.
License: BSD
Depends: grDevices, methods, XML
Suggests: RJSONIO
Enhances: Rgraphviz, vcd
Author: Duncan Temple Lang
Maintainer: Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@r-project.org>
System: libcairo
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