2012-5 Voronoi Treemaps in R
A Voronoi Treemap is a visualisation tool for displaying data with a hierarchical structure. This article describes an open source implementation of Voronoi Treemaps in the R language and environment...
View Article2012-6 Working with the gridSVG Coordinate System
The gridSVG package exports grid images to an SVG format for viewing on the web. This article describes new features in gridSVG that allow grid coordinate system information to be exported along with...
View Article2012-7 A Structured Approach for Generating SVG
The gridSVG package exports grid images to an SVG format for viewing on the web. This article describes a new development in the way that gridSVG produces the SVG output. The result is greater...
View Article2012-9 Writing grid Extensions
New hook functions, makeContext() and makeContent(), have been added to the grid graphics package. These functions allow an alternative approach to developing custom grobs when a grob can only decide...
View Article2012-11 Generating Animation Sequence Descriptions
This report describes the animaker package for generating descriptions of animation sequences. An animation sequence is composed by combining atomic animations in series to create sequence animations...
View Article2012-12 Post-Processing grid Graphics
Statistical plots drawn with the ggplot2 package generate numerous grid grobs and viewports which are labelled and organised into a coherent hierarchy. This report describes an example that shows how...
View Article2016-11 The Butterfly Affectation
This report documents a variety of approaches to including an external vector image within an R plot. The image presents particular challenges because it contains features that are not natively...
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