[R] an info on 3d representation

[Dr Stuart Leask]

>> sorry to waste your time. I downloaded R and I like it very much.
>> However, my main interest is in plotting 3D graphics form imported data
>> (points and lines in a 3d space). I imported data in a very elegant way
>> but I wasn't able to find in R something similar to the simple "splot"
>> function of WGNUplot (I don't need persp, image, contour: my values are
>> not necessarily progressive).
>> Maybe it's a very stupid question: in case, please pardon me.
>> Any help is appreciated.
>> Please reply privately. I am not (actually) in the list.
>> Thank you very much.
>
>You probably want to check out the scatterplot3d package.
>(Which is great, but I'm sure we could do even better with true 3D
>visualization tools using lighting models, hidden surface removal, and
>all that.)


Hear hear! Even if R could export 3D graphs as VRML dots or meshes, folks
could do the prettying-up elsewhere (and 3D models of the  axes would be an
enormous improvement over my ultimately pretty, but haphazard approach - for
'arty' epidemiology see www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychiatry/3d.html !).

Stuart

Dr Stuart Leask MA MB BChir (Cantab) MRCPsych
Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Nottingham Dept Psychiatry
Duncan Macmillan House, Porchester Road, Nottingham. NG3 6AA. UK
tel. 00 44 115 969 1300 xtn 40784 fax 0115 955 5352
www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychiatry/staff/sjl.html


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