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Sklyar, Oleg (London) 
Two ideas:

1) A library for interactive plots in R

R lacks functionality that would allow displaying of interactive plots with two distinct functionalities: zooming and panning. This functionality is extremely important for the analysis of large, high frequency, data sets spanning over large ranges (in time as well). The functionality should acknowledge Axis methods in callbacks on rescale (so that it could be extended to user-specific classes for axis generation) and should have a native C interface to R (i.e. no Java, but such cross platform widgets like GTK or QT or anything similar that does not require heavy-weight add-ons). GTK has been used successfully from within R in many applications (RGtk, rgobby, EBImage etc) on both *nix and Windows, and thus could be a preferential option, it is also extremely easy to integrate into R. The existing tools (e.g. iplots) are slow, unstable and lack support for time/date plots (or actually any non-standard axes) and they are all Java. We are looking into stanard xy-plots as well as image and 3D plots. Obviously one can think of further interactivity, but this would be too much for the Summer of Code project. A good prototype would already be a step forward.

2) Cross platform GUI debugger, preferably further Eclipse integration (beyond StatET capabilities)

Tibco has recently released the S+ workbench for eclipse which has a reasonable support for non-command line debugging. In the R community, the StatET eclipse plugin mimics a lot of code development functionality of S+ workbench, but has poor support for in-line execution of R sessions in eclipse and does not have debugging capabilities. Supporting this project further, or developing a GUI debugger independent of eclipse, are both acceptable options. The debugger should allow breakpoints, variable views etc.

For both of the above, our interest is mostly on the Linux side, but one should look into cross-platform solutions.

Regards,
Oleg

Dr Oleg Sklyar
Research Technologist
AHL / Man Investments Ltd
+44 (0)20 7144 3107
osklyar at maninvestments.com
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