[BlindRUG] flow charts?

[Jonathan Godfrey]

Hello Liz,

I'm not going to comment on a flow chart being useful or not for the problem at hand. The problem you are wanting to depict is linear though, and perhaps some of the steps cannot be expressed concisely enough. The linearity is going to be helpful; managing quantity of text is a concern for anything that is ultimately a graphic.

Setting that aside, I'm quite enthused by the simplicity of the mermaid instructions to generate simple flow charts that are cosmetically appealing without me having to worry about the cosmetic aspects. Quarto lets you use mermaid directly, but I don't think R markdown does at this stage. Using an R package to work with mermaid is therefore required. 

I'm less excited by the graphviz way of building a flow chart. It is also possible using diagrammr. In the end, I think you could choose either approach.

Please let us know how you get on.

HTH,
Jonathan





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From: BlindRUG <blindrug-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Liz Hare via BlindRUG
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Subject: [BlindRUG] flow charts?

Hi all,

I've been thinking that a flow chart might really help my sighted colleagues understand a complex modeling process (factor analysis, which has lots of steps). Has anyone tried this with diagramR or other packages? Were you able to do it mostly independently?

Thanks,
Liz



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