[R] What does persp() return?

[Uwe Ligges]

David Brahm wrote:
> 
> Thanks very much to Paul Murrell, Ben Bolker, and Peter Dalgaard for
> responding.  Sorry I failed to find the 3/15/02 discussion of this same topic.
> May I suggest that the omission of the returned value from the help page for
> persp() is a "documentation bug"?  Something like this could be added:
> 
> Value:
>   A 4x4 matrix (call it "pmat"), suitable for transforming 3D coordinates
> (x,y,z) into list(x,y) values.  These can then be used by lines(), points(),
> etc, to superimpose additional data on the 3D plot.  The transformation can be
> accomplished with the following function:
> 
>   trans3d <- function(x,y,z, pmat) {
>     tmat <- t(cbind(x,y,z,1) %*% pmat)
>     list(x=tmat[1,]/tmat[4,], y=tmat[2,]/tmat[4,])
>   }


I must have missed the beginning of this thread.
After the mentioned similar discussion from march, I hacked (I mean:
*hacked*) a function
s3d.persp() that combines persp() with some of the ideas from
scatterplot3d(). s3d.persp() was included in one unpublished (in a way)
version of the package scatterplot3d, which is available at:

http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/leute/ligges/R/scatterplot3d/scatterplot3d_0.3-10.tar.gz
respective  

http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/leute/ligges/R/scatterplot3d/scatterplot3d_0.3-10.zip
for the windows version.

Well, because of the hughe differences in the design of those functions
won't fit together easily. Since no clean solution can be found quickly,
I throw s3d.persp() away one day later, but it might be useful for you
anyway.

Uwe Ligges
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