[R] surface plotting

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 6/16/2008 4:40 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 6/16/2008 4:25 PM, Floyd poole wrote:
>> I am new to R  and what to find out which package would be best to create a
>> surface plot, 2d or 3d if possible. I have a matrix (depth.dat) which has
>> over 15k depth measurements from an ultrasonic corrosion mapping
>> application. These depth measurements only have one axis (x) but I have used
>> Octave and gnuplot providing decent results, but R seems to have a web
>> interface with PERL which is what I am looking for.
> 
> For static plots, scatterplot3d (in the scatterplot3d package) is best. 
>   For rotatable surfaces, persp3d in the rgl package.  (See 
> example(persp3d) for some examples.)

Sorry, I changed my mind in the middle of writing that and didn't edit 
properly.

For surfaces:

persp() (in the base graphics package) for static plots
persp3d() (in rgl) for rotatable plots

For 3D scatterplots:

scatterplot3d() (in scatterplot3d) for static
plot3d() (in rgl) for rotatable.

Duncan Murdoch