[Qgis-developer] Please vote : kCube Developer Poll

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM,  <mayeul.kauffmann at free.fr> wrote:

> Each time there is a new vote:
> 1- the page managing the vote adds the result of the vote to a plain text file
> 2- launch an R script (by a system/bash call)
> The R script will do the following:
> 3- Read the results of the vote from the plain text file
> 4- Generates the plot(s), saving it in a png file in a folder of the web server
> 5- optionally adding interaction (saving relevant javascript file)
>
> The steps 1 and 2 can be replaced by a direct call to R (there are R bindings from many web scripting languages).
>
> I volunteer to do steps 3 to 5 if you are interested.
> This requires to have R installed on the web server (it is packaged for most linux distribs).

 Using R would be massive overkill! Open-source javascript packages
exist for charting, Tim has just blogged about this so I assume he's
working on it.

 I've used 'flot' in the past and am being impressed by 'protovis'.

Barry