[R] Plotting 3d surfaces

[John Fox]

Dear Ben,

Though still accessible through the Rcmdr, the scatter3d() function has been moved to the car package.

Best,
 John

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 19:41:12 +0000 (UTC)
 Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson <at> lancaster.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Uwe Wolfram <uwwo <at> in-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> 
> > > I am currently working on a project which involves nls-fits of three
> > > dimensional surfaces such as ellipsoids or even more complex. I have
> > > been searching R help and the manuals for a possibility to plot these
> > > surfaces. Is there any package in R that allows plotting something like
> > > this:
> > >
> > > http://uwwo.in-chemnitz.de/R-Problem/tsai-wu-principal-strain.pdf
> > >
> > > This plot was generated using Mathematicas ContourPlot3D function. I
> > > would love to be able to plot this in R. However, I could not find
> > > something which could this.
> > 
> >  The package you need for all things three-dimensional is 'rgl'.
> > Install, read docs, play!
> 
> 
>   Also see the scatter3d function in the Rcmdr package.
> 
> library(sos)
> findFn("ellipsoid")
> 
> finds other bits and pieces: plotsubspace() in MCMCglmm, etc.
> 
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John Fox
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Department of Sociology
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