Something something p5.js

[jonocarroll]

I don't have a specific idea in mind, but p5.js is a fantastic library that just begs to be used in a htmlwidget. Some 'prior art':

geom_realtime(): live-plotting microphone input: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mdiCUbgxi0

click and animate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRYlPWEtVQ8

The examples page linked above has many, many possibilities.

[PeteHaitch]

Sean Kross (@seankross) gave a really cool talk at JSM on https://github.com/seankross/p5, his R package with bindings to p5. His slides are available as a blog post http://seankross.com/2017/08/11/Beyond-Axes-Simulating-Systems-with-Interactive-Graphics.html

[jonocarroll]

So, yeah. I want to make what Sean made, I guess.

It doesn't look like he took it anywhere near as far as it could go, so there's still plenty more that could build on this. Take that repo as inspiration for R bindings to p5.js and think of what we could do with it.

[PeteHaitch]

Sean may be interested in collaborating to advance the package. He's just started grad school, so I'm sure he's got a billion other things on his plate!

[adam-gruer]

It could be awesome to sit this over the data coming out of #3

[seankross]

Hey all, (thanks for the mention @PeteHaitch)

I am just starting grad school and my life is a little crazy as a result! Still I really think that p5 and R should absolutely get together. @jonocarroll if you want to fork my repository and run with the code then go for it! If you want to start from scratch because my library doesn't make any sense you should do that, don't worry about stepping on my toes I don't care! If you want to collaborate on what I've already written I'd be happy to do that as well, though I'm not going to be able to be online during ozunconf17.

tl;dr Go for it and don't worry about me but I'd be happy to help too!

Sean

[MilesMcBain]

Ohhhhhh wow. This is great stuff... also I really dig that slideshow/blog post mashup thing you have going on @seankross. I feel like I watched your talk now.

[seankross]

Yeah another "someday maybe" project is to turn that slide hand-out presentation format into a proper R Markdown template using the same HTML-comment-as-content framework as Ari.

[jonocarroll]

Cheers @seankross -- I'm absolutely keen to collaborate on this stuff when you get some bandwidth. Your p5 functions look like and do exactly what I had in mind initially and I'm definitely going to base what I do on your work. My larger goal though is to enable a user to generate plots with the same R syntax, as in #26

[jonocarroll]

Right, so with geom_realtime() as its own project/issue (#26) this one needs more focus. I say we extend what @seankross has so brilliantly made (https://github.com/seankross/p5) into a more feature-rich wrapper.

I don't have a specific use case yet, but it would be nice to wrap some of the features of p5. As a lofty goal, I would think we could get a game of FlappyBird made during the unconf using only R commands and R wrappers to p5. Here's a pure JS implementation that we could map the functionality of.

A slightly less silly/more useful goal would be to do the wrapping so that a user could plot their data as shapes/some sort of interactivity/3D.

[hrbrmstr]

Just making sure folks are also aware of https://processing-r.github.io/

[jonocarroll]

I was not aware of it, so thank you @hrbrmstr! It's definitely a more sophisticated application of the bindings, but the p5 package did exactly what we wanted and allowed us to extend to arbitrary R function input processing data streams, plotting in real-enough-time.

Vignettes and blog posts to follow in good time.

[stefaniebutland]

Putting @jonocarroll's blog post on realtime here since references things discussed here: 2017 rOpenSci ozunconf :: Reflections and the realtime Package https://ropensci.org/blog/2017/11/14/realtime/

[bedantaguru]

@jonocarroll so what is the plan for geom_realtime