Submitted by covingto on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:23
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Many people have mentioned that there should be a reporting function in Red-R. The basic goals of this should be to generate some kind of automated report of one's activities in Red-R.
This is a really complicated goal as Red-R could be used for anything from studying gene expression to picking stocks to mapping geothermal data.
However, we have begun to implement report functions in the core to generate reports of a schema. This is still in development so we wanted to open the discussion to the community to see what features would be desired.
This is what the report will look like:
Top: Image of the canvas
Next:
A report of each widget including all things in the interface as well as R output, notes, etc.
We are implementing this at the widget level so widget makers will be able to override the normal function to make custom reports for their particular widget.
All of this is being done in html. Any other suggestions for formats will gladly be entertained. But before I get a hundred comments that LaTeX compilers are really easy to use and there is this or that report software remember that the installer is already ~65MB and any thing that we need to add for this will make the installer that much bigger. HTML is easy to make as strings and every modern computer that I have ever seen has a web browser which can read and display html with figures etc.
Please comment!!!
I'm switching from html to restructured text.
Once this is working to my satisfaction I'll be updating the installer for Red-R to include docutils and report functions. Don't worry about this impacting Red-R functionality. The version number will remain at 1.75 as widgets will still be compatible with the change.
Kyle