2013-7 Advanced SVG Graphics from R

July 10, 2013acho050 Comment

The gridSVG package has recently provided an interface for some more advanced SVG graphics features: gradient fills and pattern fills, clipping paths, masks, and filters. …

2013-4 Generating Structured and Labelled SVG

April 10, 2013akoh003 Comment

This article discusses the importance of providing structure and labelling within SVG code, particularly when the SVG code is generated indirectly by a high-level system …

2013-3 Generating unique names in gridSVG

April 3, 2013akoh003

The gridSVG package exports grid images to the SVG image format for viewing on the web. This article describes the problems associated with retaining grid …

2013-1 TimingManager: Animation Sequences in JavaScript

January 9, 2013akoh003

The TimingManager library is a tool written in JavaScript used to apply animations in a web browser. It is not concerned with creation or modification …

2012-12 Post-Processing grid Graphics

December 11, 2012akoh003

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 …

2012-11 Generating Animation Sequence Descriptions

November 30, 2012akoh003

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 …

2012-10 Introducing the ‘selectr’ Package

November 27, 2012akoh003

The selectr package translates a CSS selector into an equivalent XPath expression. This allows the use of CSS selectors to query XML documents using the …

2012-9 Writing grid Extensions

November 6, 2012akoh003

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 …