Marios Braindump

The R-project describes itself as a “free software environment for statistical computing and graphics”. It can produce nice graphics indeed, but in practice editing them often gets tedious since any alteration must be given as one or multiple command-line commands. At least I thought so – until I found out about the playwith package. With it, you can play with any kind of graphic (plots, histograms, images…) interactively: zoom in/out, add text, modify colors and more. You can even add input elements (sliders, buttons,…) to interactively control any variable you’re using. The resulting graphics can be exported directly (hint: set output format with playwith.options(save.as.format = "svg") ). Try the package out: Playwith at Google Code.

Tags:english R | Filed on January 27th, 2009 | No Comments »