Publications by pmur002

2016-13 ‘DOM’ Version 0.3

20.10.2016

This report describes changes in version 0.3 of the ‘DOM’ package for R. This version represents a major refactoring of the package code, including its user-facing API. These changes were made in order to facilitate the addition of new features to the package, which in this version include: a new way to refer to DOM nodes from R code that all...

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2016-14 ‘DOM’ version 0.4

09.11.2016

This report describes changes in version 0.4 of the ‘DOM’ package for R. The main change in this version is the addition of new functions that allow control over the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) content of a web page. This provides programmatic control over the styling of HTML and SVG content on a page. Paul Murrell Download Related To leav...

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2016-14 ‘DOM’ version 0.4

09.11.2016

This report describes changes in version 0.4 of the ‘DOM’ package for R. The main change in this version is the addition of new functions that allow control over the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) content of a web page. This provides programmatic control over the styling of HTML and SVG content on a page. Paul Murrell Download Related To leav...

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2016-15 Automating R Demonstration Videos

07.12.2016

This document describes a proof-of-concept for producing R demonstration videos in a fully-automated manner. The “script” for the video consists of a text file containing code chunks paired with text commentary. The video is produced by running the code while recording a screen capture, using text-to-speech software to record audio of the com...

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2016-15 Automating R Demonstration Videos

07.12.2016

This document describes a proof-of-concept for producing R demonstration videos in a fully-automated manner. The “script” for the video consists of a text file containing code chunks paired with text commentary. The video is produced by running the code while recording a screen capture, using text-to-speech software to record audio of the com...

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2017-01 Variable-width lines in R

18.05.2017

This document describes the ‘vwline’ package, which provides an R interface for drawing variable-width curves. The package provides functions to draw line segments through a set of locations, or a smooth curve relative to a set of control points, with the width of the line allowed to vary along the length of the line. Paul Murrell Download R...

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2017-04 Speeding up gridSVG

29.10.2017

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 where it used to be painfully slow). Paul Murrell Download Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on...

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2018-01 Generating Colour Names: The ‘roloc’ Package for R

24.01.2018

This report introduces the ‘roloc’ package for R, which provides functions for converting colour specifications into colour names. Paul Murrell Download Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R – Stat Tech. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about ...

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2018-02 An ISCC-NBS Colour List for ‘roloc’

07.02.2018

This report describes the development of a colour list and colour metric for the ‘roloc’ package that is based on the ISCC-NBS System of Color Designation. Paul Murrell Download Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R – Stat Tech. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R ...

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2018-03 Putting the Macron in Māori: Accented text in R Graphics

28.02.2018

This report describes different methods for correctly rendering macrons in Māori text within R plots. The topics covered will also have relevance to rendering other special characters in R graphics and possibly to rendering macrons in other software. Paul Murrell Download Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and c...

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