[R] Hypercube in R

akastrin andrej.kastrin at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 21:50:45 CET 2010


Your solution seems wonderful. I'm going to uninstall ggobi :) Thanks
again.

Cheers, Andrej

On Feb 10, 8:59 pm, "William Dunlap" <wdun... at tibco.com> wrote:
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> > [mailto:r-help-boun... at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Andrej Kastrin
> > Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:37 PM
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> > Subject: [R] Hypercube in R
>
> > Dear all,
>
> > Does anybody have an idea or suggestion how to construct (plot)
> > 4-dimensional hypercube in R.
>
> > Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> Try the following, which plots a projection of
> a `dimension`-cube to a random 2 dimensional
> subspace.  It uses lm() to do the projection
> since that is how I think of linear models, but
> you could use more direct matrix manipulations.
> It has too many calls to t() in it and it should
> let you specify the subspace.  Try it with
>    par(mfrow=c(3,3), mar=rep(0,4))
>    for(i in 1:9) f(dimension=4)
> to get a 9 random views.
>
> f <- function(dimension) {
>   rorthogonal <- function(n = 2, dimension) {
>       # generate `n` random orthonormal vectors
>       # in `dimension` dimensional space
>       x <- matrix(rnorm(n*dimension), nrow=n, ncol=dimension)
>       t(eigen(crossprod(x))$vectors)
>   }
>   cube <- as.matrix(do.call(expand.grid, rep(list(c(-1,1)),dimension)))
>   # the points pairs with distance 2 are connected by edges
>   ij <- which(abs(as.matrix(dist(cube))-2)<1e-7, arr.ind=TRUE)
>   # only need edge in one direction
>   ij <- ij[ij[,1]<ij[,2],]
>   basis <- rorthogonal(n=2, dim=dimension)
>   # p is projection of vectices to subspace of basis
>   p <- t(lm.fit(x=t(basis), y=t(cube))$coef)
>   # plot vertices
>   plot(p[,1],p[,2],asp=1)
>   # plot edges
>   segments(p[,1][ij[,1]], p[,2][ij[,1]], p[,1][ij[,2]], p[,2][ij[,2]])
>
> }
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
>
> > Regards, Andrej
>
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