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Installation

• Instructions on installing Qt under different operating systems.
  • installation under Ubuntu
  • installation under Mac OS X
• Install the cranvas package
  • Users with R >= 2.14.0 can install qtbase and qtpaint from Bioconductor

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite(c('qtbase', 'qtpaint'))

• otherwise just use the code below

## install dependency from CRAN
install.packages(c('scales', 'tourr', 'objectSignals', 'maps'))

## install other dependencies from GitHub
if (!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools')  # needs Curl for RCurl
library(devtools)
pkgs <- list(hadley = c('productplots', 'densityvis'), ggobi = c('plumbr', 'qtbase', 'qtpaint', 'cranvas'))
for (repo in names(pkgs)) {
  for (pkg in pkgs[[repo]]) install_github(pkg, repo)
}

Common Features

• (global) graphical parameters
• color palette
• point glyphs
• selection calculus
• data selector
• brushing

Specific Functions

• parallel coordinates plot

For Developers

• utilities
• meta data
• how to rotate a view

Misc

• http://imgur.com is a nice place to upload images
• http://vimeo.com for videos (Hadley has a pro account if you need to upload something big)