[rkward-devel] Request for feedback on new plugin features, and plot history

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Sunday 19 September 2010, Prasenjit Kapat wrote:
> To me the first variant is more transparent. The plugin remains same
> and whether or not a data frame is pre-selected is what changes.

thanks for the feedback. I'm leaning the same way.

I intend to but this and "generate random data" into a menu "Edit->Data" for 
the upcoming release, but move them back into "Data" once there are a few 
more. Having a top-level-menu for only two entries is a bit of a waste of 
space.
 
> For "post release" (unless Thomas wants this implemented pre-release)
> features: I would suggest allowing more variables to be selected for
> ordering the data frame.

Yes, true. The follow-up problem is that you may want to sort for "A" 
ascending and for "B" descending. Thus it should be possible to specify the 
sort order for each of the variables, separately. And we simply don't have a 
way to support this in the plugin GUI for an arbitrary number of variables, 
yet. Well, this is solvable, but not trivial. And it's what kept me from 
adding this right away.

BTW, a similar feature would be nice in the scatterplot plugin, among others, 
to allow a more user-friendly way to specify separate line types/colors for 
each pair of variables. I'm thinking along the lines of

<optionset foreach="id.of.source.variables">
   <checkbox id="something".../>
   ...
</optionset>

> We could call it "rk.sort.data.frame" and add it to public.R.

This might be a good idea, but let's wait until we actually start using it. 
The point is, we should keep the rkward-package to anything that is really 
needed to run RKWard, or specific to RKWard in any other way. Anything else can 
go into a separate package (BTW, no objections against starting one in our 
SVN).

Regards
Thomas
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