[R] can we visualize water flows with 3d in R?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12/10/2016 4:49 AM, Marna Wagley wrote:
> Hi R Users,
> Is it possible to visualize river flow in  3D (latitude, longitude with
> respect to depth)?
> The example of my data looks like. Any suggestions?
>
>> dat1
>     long lat depth flow
> 1 1015.9 857  1.00 1.50
> 2 1015.9 857  1.25 1.23
> 3 1015.9 857  0.50 2.00
> 4 1015.9 858  0.10 1.95
> 5 1015.9 858  0.20 1.50
> 6 1025.0 858  0.30 1.20
> 7 1025.0 858  0.40 0.50
> 8 1025.0 858  0.35 0.70
> 9 1025.0 858  0.24 1.20
>
> Thanks for your help.

It may be, but it's hard to give a nice looking graphic of that small 
dataset.  You could try the rgl package and use plot3d to show spheres 
with radius depending on the flow rate, for example

plot3d(cbind(long, lat, depth), type="s", col="blue", radius=flow/5)

Duncan Murdoch