[R] 3D plot with coordinates

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 21/06/2017 5:23 AM, Alaios via R-help wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the reply.After  looking at different parts of the code today I was able to start with simple 2D polar plots as the attached pdf file.  In case the attachment is not visible I used the plot.polar function to create something like that.https://vijaybarve.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/polarplot-05.png
> Now the idea now will be to put three of those (for X,Y,Z) in a 3d rotatable plane. I tried the rgl function but is not clear how I can use directly polar coordinates to draw the points at the three different planes.
> Any ideas on that?

You can't easily do what you're trying to do.  You have 6 coordinates to 
display:  the 3 angles and values corresponding to each of them.  You 
need to suppress something.

If the values for matching angles correspond to each other (e.g. x=23 
degrees and y=23 degrees and z=23 degrees all correspond to the same 
observation), then I'd suggest suppressing the angles.  Just do a 
scatterplot of the 3 corresponding values.  It might make sense to join 
them (to make a path as the angles change), and perhaps to colour the 
path to indicate the angle (or plot text along the path to show it).

Duncan Murdoch

> Thanks a lot.RegardsAlex
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>     On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 9:49 PM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
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>  package rgl.
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> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
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> On 20.06.2017 21:29, Alaios via R-help wrote:
>> HelloI have three x,y,z vectors (lets say each is set as  rnorm(360)). So each one is having 360 elements each one correpsonding to angular coordinates (1 degree, 2 degrees, 3 degrees,.... 360 degrees) and I want to plot those on the xyz axes that have degress.
>> Is there a function or library to look at R cran? The ideal will be that after plotting I will be able to rotate the shape.
>> I would like to thank you in advance for your helpRegardsAlex
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