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Scalable Vector Graphics

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This chapter explores a powerful two-dimensional graphics format named SVG (scalable vector graphics), which is becoming widely used to represent object-based, vector (nonraster) graphics both on the Web and elsewhere. In addition to displaying scalable plots, the XML-based SVG format provides functionality for interactivity, animation, and a number of filtering effects that allow us to create rich graphical displays, and also to integrate them with Web pages. R can create static SVG displays, and we can post-process them within R as XML documents to add interaction and animation. We show how to provide simple interaction and animation with high-level R functions, and also how to add more customized interaction using R commands that use JavaScript at viewing time. We also discuss how to use both SVG and HTML to create rich “applications” and mash-ups in the Web browser.

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  1. Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Deborah Nolan

  2. Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

    Duncan Temple Lang

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Nolan, D., Lang, D.T. (2014). Scalable Vector Graphics. In: XML and Web Technologies for Data Sciences with R. Use R!. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7900-0_16

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