To plot the sphere in R I find the best scatterplot3d package as follows: library(scatterplot3d) a=seq(-pi,pi, length=100) x=c(rep(1, 100) %*% t(cos(a))) y=c(cos(a) %*% t(sin(a))) z=c(sin(a) %*% t(sin(a))) scatterplot3d(x, y, z, type="l") Best regards Branimir K. Hackenberger