Re: graphics

[Jörg Beyer]

Sorry for being late, I just noticed this thread.

There's an R-package, ggplot2, which relates heavily and explicitly on the
grammar of graphics (hence _gg_plot2). The package is published on CRAN,
Author is Hadley Wickham (www.had.co.nz), who is also working on a book on
this topic. He may either have useful tips and hints regarding the legal
stuff, or be interested in a discussion, so it may be worth a try to contact
him. 

Jörg 


On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 07:01:29PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      
>      I also think that this is a good direction to look into, but
>      unfortunately I think that the first step we will have to take is
>      to get competent legal advice.  Witness:
>      
>              http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT7023453
>              http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT7176924
>      
>      Both of these are patents titled "A computer method, apparatus
>      and storage medium is provided for creating quantitative
>      aesthetic graphics from data," inventor L. Wilkinson, assigned to
>      SPSS Inc.
> 
> Hmm Yes.  Perhaps then it's better if we don't read this book, least
> it subconciously influences the code.
> 
> J'