[Roxygen-devel] Rgraphviz

[Hadley Wickham]

It's probably fine - it's just a bit of a pain because it's a
bioconductor package.  But I think we can suggest it, and make the
callgraph roclet available, but not included in the list of default
roclets.

Hadley

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Peter Danenberg <pcd at roxygen.org> wrote:
> Thanks, Rainer; I'm going to CC the list.
>
> Would you guys mind if we bring back the Rgraphviz dependency, or is
> this problematic for Windows users?
>
> If so, what's a viable alternative?
>
> Quoth Rainer M Krug on Sweetmorn, the 70th of Confusion:
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Peter Danenberg <pcd at roxygen.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Quoth Rainer M Krug on Setting Orange, the 69th of Confusion:
>> > > If possible, I would appreciate the re-inclusion of callgraph - or
>> > > is there an alternative way to generate these?
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for responding so quickly.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > We removed that because of the onerous Rgraphviz dependency; is
>> > Rgraphviz acceptable,
>>
>>
>> For me, rgraphviz is acceptable, and a reference in the manual
>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Rgraphviz.html and
>> how to install it as described on this page, would be fine.
>>
>>
>> > or should we investigate some native R package
>> > for rendering graphs?
>> >
>>
>> I think that is not necessary.  As it is working with rgraphviz, I would
>> leave it for the moment. And installing rgraphviz as described in the link
>> above, is not that difficult.
>>
>> So I would suggest to leave it with rgraphviz, and in the medium to long run
>> investigating alternatives if need be.
>>
>> By the way: where does the quote "on Setting Orange, the 69th of Confusion"
>> come from? it sounds interesting.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
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