Proposal for CTV

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• Submission: Open an issue in the ctv repository with the title CRAN task view proposal: MyTopic where MyTopic should be replaced with the intended name of the task view in CamelCase.
• Scope: Include one or two paragraphs about the scope of the task view, outlining the inclusion and exclusion criteria as well as relevant sections within the topic.
• Packages: Include a tentative list of packages for the task view. This should encompass the "core" packages and a collection of relevant packages, ideally grouped by sections within the topic. It is not important, yet, that the list of sections or packages is already exhaustive.
• Overlap: Comment on potential overlap with already existing task views as well as with task views that might be created (or split off) in the future.
• Maintainers: The proposal should be made by the person willing to act as the principal maintainer for the task view. Furthermore, task views should have teams of additional 1-5 co-maintainers and possible candidates for these can be listed as well in the proposal.

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VisualizationStatic

The Graphics CTV was archived several years ago because it wasn't sufficiently maintained, and there were way too many packages listed. It needed to be broken into smaller subsets. This is a proposal for creating several new CTVs covering the vast range of graphics capabilities in R.

• Scope: This CTV summaries the static graphics packages available on CRAN. Graphics capabilities is one of the strengths of R, and it is important to have an active summary available for users.
  • Inclusion criteria: Package provides tools for drawing visual displays of data.
  • Exclusion criteria: The graphics are not interactive (direct manipulation) by default, e.g. the user cannot click on an element and have a label pop-up. It is not a low level graphics device upon which many drawing packages are rendering to screen or file.
• Packages: see taxonomy list
• Overlap: There is no overlap with existing CTVs. We are also proposing that new CTVs are written: VisualizationDynamic which will list packages with interactive and dynamic capabilites. ColorPalettes will list the large array of different colour palettes available with different drawing systems. GraphicsDevices will list the variety of devices to draw graphics on the screen or output to file.
• Maintainers: ??

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VisualizationDynamic

The Graphics CTV was archived several years ago because it wasn't sufficiently maintained, and there were way too many packages listed. It needed to be broken into smaller subsets. This is a proposal for creating several new CTVs covering the vast range of graphics capabilities in R.

Scope: This CTV summaries the dynamic graphics packages available on CRAN. Dynamic graphics have historically been available in R, but new packages are emerging regularly, particularly as new technology emerges. It is important to have an active summary available for users. Inclusion criteria: Package provides tools for drawing visual displays of data, that have some interactive (direct manipulation) or dynamic component. For example, the user can click on an element and have a label pop-up, or the plots are rapidly updated to produce a rotation or animation. Exclusion criteria: The graphics are not primarily interactive or dynamic. It is not a low level graphics device upon which many drawing packages are rendering to screen or file. Packages: see taxonomy list Overlap: There is no overlap with existing CTVs. We are also proposing that new CTVs are written: VisualizationStatic which will list packages with only static drawing capabilites. ColorPalettes will list the large array of different colour palettes available with different drawing systems. GraphicsDevices will list the variety of devices to draw graphics on the screen or output to file. Maintainers: ??