feature request: Range selector for time series data

[ziyadsaeed]

dygraphs has a nice range selector feature for time series data. Can this feature be added to rbokeh http://rstudio.github.io/dygraphs/gallery-range-selector.html

[hafen]

Technically putting something like this together should be possible but it would probably involve a bit of low-level javascript code to add it as a component. If there is a lot of interest in this, I will look into it, but there are several general issues I'm focusing on right now.

[ziyadsaeed]

No problem this isn't a priority. Looking forward to v0.3

[hafen]

This will actually be a fun example attempt when we put in custom js callbacks (see examples toward the bottom of here) that we can build some higher-level plots around.

BTW, v0.3 is coming along - lots of overhaul on the theme stuff among other things. You can try the dev branch if you want. I need to put together an updated tutorial for the dev version so you can actually see what's different. Stay tuned...

[lawremi]

As discussed at DSC I am interested in helping make rbokeh more extensible in this direction. But I think this case could be handled by using the box selection (restricted to width) tool in the overview plot and then having the x_range of the top plot linked to the selection. The linking is not yet possible (I think), so I posted this issue: https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/issues/4745.