[R] wireframe advice - with reproducible code

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 16/05/2011 11:17 AM, Chris Mcowen wrote:
> Thanks for this,
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> With the data i have what is the best method to convert it into the required matrix, as i am a little unsure how it would be done - i imagine this must be a common task?

You can't convert it.  Your data doesn't form a surface.

You could fit a model that had a prediction surface, but there isn't a 
single best way to do that.  It depends on the best model for your data, 
which depends on much more than just the set of points.

Duncan Murdoch

> Chris
> On 16 May 2011, at 16:05, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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> On 16/05/2011 10:57 AM, Chris Mcowen wrote:
> >  Sorry,
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> >  My bad -
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> >  I have notice you can remove the data call when using this and it works the same,  also FD is the same as Residual_FD i just forgot i coded it different.
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> >  wireframe(FD ~ Elevation * Temperature, scales = list(arrows = FALSE), drape = TRUE, colorkey = TRUE)
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> >  Sorry and thanks again,
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> Those points don't form a surface that wireframe could draw.  cloud() would work, but if you want a wireframe surface, then the FD values need to be something like what persp() needs:  a matrix of values, with rows and columns being combined values from Elevation and Temperature.  wireframe() is different in that the matrix is presented as a column in the data, with the rows and columns repeated correspondingly.
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> See the g dataframe produced in example(wireframe) for an example of the right sort of structure.
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> Duncan Murdoch
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