[R] 3D histogram

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:44:19 -0400, "Peter Flom" <flom at ndri.org> wrote
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>I agree with Lorenz, but would add a couple other recommended books:
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>Cleveland, WS (1994) The Elements of Graphing Data 
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>and
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>Cleveland WS (1993) Visualizing Data.
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>both are pub. by Hobart Press, in Summit NJ, USA
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>I think the problem with 3 D graphics (at least for me) is that not only can they obscure patterns that exist, they can sometimes show patterns that do NOT exist.  Not a good deal  But others may be better at using them than I

3-D graphics can reveal a lot, but they generally need to be dynamic,
not static.  The only static ones that I find useful are the stereo
pairs, but those are too much trouble for most purposes.

In R, Daniel Adler's rgl package does dynamic graphics.  (I wrote a
package a few years ago that was also called rgl; I've renamed mine to
djmrgl, and have agreed with Daniel that we're better off with his.)  

Duncan Murdoch