[R] R article in forbes

[John Fox]

Dear David and Bogasso,

The image is from
<http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Courses/R-course/index.html>, as you'd see
by clicking on the graph in the Forbes article, and it was indeed produced
with scatter3d() in the car package.

Best,
 John

--------------------------------
John Fox
Senator William McMaster 
  Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On
> Behalf Of David Winsemius
> Sent: November-16-10 11:30 AM
> To: Bogaso Christofer
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] R article in forbes
> 
> 
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Bogaso Christofer wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Mark, for sharing such a great article. Really feeling proud
> > that I am also part of that great community. BTW can anyone share the
> > code on how to draw the picture displayed there (blur surface plot)?
> >
> 
> Again... a small bit of searching at Baron's site (only 2 hits for s
search
> "prestige eduction income 3d":
> 
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/car/html/scatter3d.html
> 
> Turns out none of them is exactly that plot, but this is pretty close
(after
> click-drag-rotating the interactive RGL display)
> 
> require(car)
>      if(interactive() && require(rgl) && require(mgcv))
{scatter3d(prestige ~
> income + education, fit=c( "additive"),
>   	data=Prestige)
>   	}
> 
> (screengrab of X11 window attached.)