JavaGD - Java Graphics Device for R

xGD documentation. URL: http://stats.math.uni-augsburg.de/R/xGD/

Please note that the current Java Graphics Device pages have moved to RForge.

About JavaGD

What is JavaGD?
	JavaGD is a package for R (see www.r-project.org) providing a Java Graphics Device, that is a device delegating all painting functions of R to a Java class. The default implementation provides an object of the class Canvas, which can be used in any Java application. Currently the main use of JavaGD is in the JGR project, but it doesn't depend on it.
What's new?
	2005/05/02 Release of JavaGD 0.3-3 on CRAN. Please note that future versions will not necessarily announced here - please see CRAN for the most recent version of JavaGD.
	2004/10/14 Release of JavaGD 0.2-0
	2004/10/02 Release of JavaGD 0.1-7 which works for both R 2.0.0 and 1.9.1.
	2004/05/12 First public release of JavaGD 0.1-3
	2004/02/02 All RoSuDA packages are now available via `install.packages` with `contriburl="http://www.rosuda.org/R"` parameter.
Download and Release notes
	The JavaGD package can be installed from CRAN (including binaries for Windows and Mac), e.g. using: `install.packages("JavaGD")` Other downloads: Java class sources: JavaGDjsrc_0.2-0.tar.gz The package requires R 1.9.0 or later, because major changes have been made in the graphics device interface between R 1.8.1 and 1.9.0. The package itself is considered beta and is more likely to be useful for developers than end users. It is, however, successfully user in JGR.
Documentation
	The only available documentation at the moment is the help page in R and the commented sources in the package (including JavaDocs in the Java sources). Once installed and loaded with `library(JavaGD)` a new window can be created by the `JavaGD()` command. For now the initialiation is automatic only in JGR. Stand-alone instructions should follow later... Beside the usual `CLASSPATH` environment variable JavaGD honors the `JAVAGD_CLASS_NAME` environment variable which can be set to specify custom Java class which will be used to fire up a new window. The class must implement all gdXXX methods and constructors of `org.rosuda.JavaGD.JavaGD` and the class name must be in fully-qualified JNI notation, so the default is `"org/rosuda/JavaGD/JavaGD"`.

JavaGD was developed by Simon Urbanek, but anyone interested is welcome to contribute since the package is released under GPL.