Interactive Scatter Plot

This software draws interactively scatter plots of two columns of a table in CSV (separator TAB by default) .

It is possible to select a group of dots and save the corresponding data rows. Plots can be saved as well.

this program was inspired from shiny examples in particular those ones : diamonds, select points

many thanks to the authors for these examples !

Manual :

1- if not already installed, install R programming language.

2- install R packages : shiny, Cairo, ggplot2 using the command :

install.packages("shiny")

install.packages("ggplot2")

install.packages("Cairo") (additional libraries of your Linux distribution can be required to install this package)

3- unzip the software

4- copy your table in the “data” directory.

Very important : avoid spaces or special characters in files names.

sign -, +, (), ', :, and special characters as well are forbidden in row or colnames !

rownames or colnames should not start by a number !

The files must be formated as follows :

- txt or csv files with TAB separator

- first line : column names

- first column : row names

- next columns : values

- number of columns : illimited

5- open a terminal and open the software directory using cd

6- execute the software by the command : Rscript Run.R

7- a web address such as

Listening on http://127.0.0.1:7918

will appear on the terminal

9- copy this address on your web browser

8- a web page will appear with an interactive plot.

The button "save plot" save the plot in the "plot" directory.

The button "save data" save selected dots in the "result" directory.

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