Documention for: charts-api.r
Created by: chrisrg
 on: 10-Aug-2008
Last updated by: chrisrg on: 11-Sep-2008
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Downloaded on: 30-Apr-2025

Google Charts API

  Christopher Ross-Gill
  9th August 2008

A URL generator to access the Google Charts API

===Usage

This is a rudimentary wrapper for the Google Charts API.  It takes some of the work out of generating API arguments, though knowledge of the API is still recommended.

=url http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ Google Charts API

---Basic Line Chart

'Line' is the default Chart Type:

  view layout [
      image chart [data: [10 95 60 95 10]]
  ]

---Basic Bar Chart

Types can be specified, either by the preset words (see script) or by the chart types set in the Google API:

  view layout [
      image chart [type: 'bar data: [10 95 60 95 10] bars: [55 8]]
  ]

---Data Sets

Data can be supplied as a single or multiple sets:

  data: [1 2 3 4]
  data: [[1 2] [3 4] [5 6]]

---Styles

Basic styles can be supplied:

  color: red
  area: [color solid 255.153.0]
  area: [[color solid 255.140.204][chart solid 0.204.204]]
  bars: [40 5 10] ; width space group-space