Embedded R Graphics Devices within GUIs

Using the R gtk device package, one can create a Gtk Drawing Area widget using, e.g. RGtk, and then arrange to have R use that widget as a regular gtk graphics device. In this way, one gets R graphics embedded within ones own GUI.
Simple but powerful applications of this includes

a scrolled graphics device Screen Shot a collection of devices/widgets organized with a paned layout which provides handles or grips for interactively resizing the devices within the given area. Screen Shot a graphics region within an HTML page, much like the R graphics plugin for Netscape via the SNetscape package. Screen Shot: Screen Shot
a collection of devices/widgets organized with a paned layout which provides handles or grips for interactively resizing the devices within the given area. Screen Shot a graphics region within an HTML page, much like the R graphics plugin for Netscape via the SNetscape package. Screen Shot: Screen Shot
a graphics region within an HTML page, much like the R graphics plugin for Netscape via the SNetscape package. Screen Shot: Screen Shot

The code to create these devices and plots is here.

Martyn Plummer and I are working on a package that will provide this feature as a dynamically loadable package, avoiding the need to patch R and making this more flexible and extensible.

Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@research.bell-labs.com>

Last modified: Mon Feb 25 07:28:28 EST 2002