taskviewsVA genesis

The usage of the taskviewsVA R package (visual analytics tools for CRAN task views, L. Borke and S. Bykovskaya) with live examples on GitHub pages

CRAN Task Views statistics

Total CRAN packages: 10036

Total CRAN Task Views: 34

The distribution of CRAN task views combinations:

Number of task views	0	1	2	3	4	5	7	6	8	9	10
Number of packages	7390	2177	340	84	30	7	4	1	1	1	1

• Zero means: no task view assignment.
• One: exactly one task view assignment.
• More than one: packages having more than one task view assignment.

The distribution of all CRAN task views related packages:

The distribution of all CRAN task views versus unique CRAN task views:

• Red: all task views.
• Blue: unique task views.

Examples of D3 forceNetwork for CRAN Task Views

D3 forceNetwork graph visualizing connections between task views:

• D3 forceNetwork for all task views

D3 forceNetwork graph visualizing connections between task views and related packages:

For task views:

• all currently available task views:
  • D3 forceNetwork. Moving the mouse over a node displays the corresponding task view/package name.
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view names being displayed
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view and package names being displayed
• WebTechnologies, Spatial, ReproducibleResearch, gR, Bayesian:
  • D3 forceNetwork. Moving the mouse over a node displays the corresponding task view/package name.
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view names being displayed
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view and package names being displayed
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view and package names being displayed. A click on a node takes the user to the webpage with the corresponding task view/package
• NaturalLanguageProcessing, WebTechnologies, HighPerformanceComputing:
  • D3 forceNetwork. Moving the mouse over a node displays the corresponding task view/package name.
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view names being displayed
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view and package names being displayed

For packages:

• "abbyyR", "alm", "anametrix", "bigrquery", "downloader", "RgoogleMaps", "plotGoogleMaps", "akima", "cleangeo", "rgdal", "spaMM", "vec2dtransf", "plotKML", "leafletR", "recmap"
  • D3 forceNetwork. Moving the mouse over a node displays the corresponding task view/package name.
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view names being displayed
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view and package names being displayed
• all packages related to the High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R task view
  • D3 forceNetwork
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view names being displayed
  • D3 forceNetwork with task view and package names being displayed

Examples of interactive 3D graph visualization for CRAN Task Views

Interactive 3D graph visualizing connections between task views and related packages:

For task views:

• all currently available task views:
  • 3D graph. Moving the mouse over a node displays the corresponding package name.
  • 3D graph with white background. Moving the mouse over a node displays the corresponding package name.
• WebTechnologies, Spatial, ReproducibleResearch, gR, Bayesian:
  • 3D graph. Moving the mouse over a node displays the corresponding package name.
  • 3D graph with package names being displayed
• NaturalLanguageProcessing, WebTechnologies, HighPerformanceComputing:
  • 3D graph. Moving the mouse over a node displays the corresponding package name.
  • 3D graph with package names being displayed

For packages:

• "abbyyR", "alm", "anametrix", "bigrquery", "downloader", "RgoogleMaps", "plotGoogleMaps", "akima", "cleangeo", "rgdal", "spaMM", "vec2dtransf", "plotKML", "leafletR", "recmap":
  • 3D graph with preffered package names being displayed. Moving the mouse over a node displays the corresponding package name.
  • 3D graph with white background and preffered package names being displayed. Moving the mouse over a node displays the corresponding package name.
  • 3D graph with all package names being displayed
  • 3D graph with white background and all package names being displayed