[R] Wikipedia plots and tables?

[Jeff Newmiller]

The universe of efficient ways to generate graphics for Wikipedia would be on Wikipedia talk pages somewhere. The universe of ways to make SVG graphics with R could be on topic here. They might intersect, and if other graphics formats that R can generate for Wikipedia are identified through appropriate research channels then we have something concrete to discuss regarding R (here). But however interesting I might find this (and I admit I do), fishing for Wikipedia tricks here does not seem on-topic to me. Perhaps someone will make a knitr interface to Wikipedia and wrap all this interfacing stuff up, but that will require research on Mediawiki input format requirements, for which development I would hope one would want a Mediawiki expert's help.
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Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:

>Hi, Jeff:
>
>
>On 2/23/2013 3:12 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
>> If you look at this question objectively, Spencer, would you not
>agree that this question is entirely off topic here?
>
>
>       I can understand why you might think that.  However, I believe 
>this lists entertains questions dealing with interfacing R with other 
>software, e.g., R with Matlab.  I'm using R for this purpose, and it 
>seems to me to be a natural question to ask if there are other tools
>for 
>this or other ways of using R for this.
>
>
>      Beyond that, Wikipedia is one of the most heavily used web sites 
>on the Internet.  Any positive reference there to R helps expand the 
>recognition of R world wide.
>
>
>       Where else might it be appropriate to ask such a question?
>
>
>       Thanks for your reply.
>       Spencer
>
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>> Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, All:
>>>
>>>
>>>        What facilities exist for plots and tables of data in the
>>> standard MediaWiki software beyond the obvious standards?
>>>
>>>
>>>        The standard MediaWiki tables and graphics capabilities seem
>to
>>> me to be rather clumsy, and I wonder if I'm missing some available
>>> extensions?
>>>
>>>
>>>        The standard MediaWiki tables are described in a Wikipedia
>>> article on "Help:Table".  Wikimedia Foundation projects ask users to
>>> upload photos and graphics Wikimedia Commons -- preferably in
>scalable
>>> vector graphics (*.svg) format.
>>>
>>>
>>>        For additions I'm making to Wikimedia projects, I'm adding
>two
>>> things to the Ecdat package, now on R-Forge:
>>>
>>>
>>>              (1) Economics data sets with documentation describing
>how
>>> to produce a *.svg file, which I then upload to Wikimedia Commons
>and
>>> use in Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikiversity, and
>Wikinews.
>>>
>>>   The description of the contribution refers to Ecdat for details.
>>>
>>>
>>>              (2) Functions to facilitate creating and updating data
>>> objects being added.
>>>
>>>
>>>        Are there better ways of producing quality graphics and maybe
>>> interfacing R with MediaWiki projects?
>>>
>>>
>>>        Thanks,
>>>        Spencer Graves
>>>
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