[R] Interactive plots?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat May 26 15:18:31 CEST 2007


On 26/05/2007 8:45 AM, mister_bluesman wrote:
> Hi Tony.
> 
> I've downloaded the RSVGTipsDevice library and copied some of the examples
> in the pdf and I dont seem to be able to get any tooltips appear when I
> hover over the objects.
> 
> For example, I used the following example:
> 
>> devSVGTips("C:\\svgplot2.svg", toolTipMode=2, title="SVG example plot 2:
>> shapes and points, tooltips are title + 2 lines")
>> getSVGToolTipMode()
>> setSVGShapeToolTip(title="First circle title only")
>> plot(1:3, cex=10, main="Example SVG plot with title + 2 line tips
>> (mode=2)")
>> setSVGShapeToolTip(title="A rectangle", desc="with a 1 line tip")
>> rect(1,1,2,2)
>> setSVGShapeToolTip(title="second circle", desc1="first line of
>> description", desc2="second line")
>> points(1.5,2.5,cex=20,pch=19,col='red')
>> dev.off()
> 
> This produces a file with the path C:\svgplot2.svg. THis is shown below:
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p10816061/demo.jpg 

Your link says jpg, not svg.

> When I open it in Firefox in XP, however, none of the tooltips appear when I
> hover over the object. What do I need to solve this problem?

Don't convert to jpeg?

Duncan Murdoch



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