2012-7 A Structured Approach for Generating SVG
The gridSVG package exports grid images to an SVG format for viewing on the web. This article describes a new development in the way that gridSVG produces the SVG output. The result is greater...
View Article2013-3 Generating unique names in gridSVG
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 object names in SVG element id attributes. In...
View Article2013-4 Generating Structured and Labelled SVG
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 and when the SVG code describes...
View Article2013-7 Advanced SVG Graphics from R
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. This report describes a simple...
View Article2014-01 Improving the ‘gridGraphviz’ package in R
The gridGraphviz package renders node-and-edge graphs in R using the grid graphics package. Graphs are laid out using the Rgraphviz package to interface with the graph layout algorithms in graphviz....
View Article2015-05 Generating SVG for Web Pages with the gridSVG Package
This document describes several different techniques for including SVG images within a web page and points out the important SVG attributes that control the final appearance of the SVG image within the...
View Article2016-03 Importing the New R Logo
The R project has a new logo (shown below). On his blog, Bob Rudis showed how to draw the new R logo as part of an R plot. The purpose of this report is demonstrate an alternative way to draw the new R...
View Article2016-11 The Butterfly Affectation
This report documents a variety of approaches to including an external vector image within an R plot. The image presents particular challenges because it contains features that are not natively...
View Article2017-04 Speeding up gridSVG
This report describes changes in version 1.6-0 of the ‘gridSVG’ package for R. The most important result of these changes is that ‘gridSVG’ is now much faster at generating SVG files (in situations...
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2019-02 SVG In, SVG Out
This report discusses how to work with complex SVG images in R. We look at importing an external SVG image into R with the ‘grImport2’ package, integrating the imported image with other R graphics,...
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