I wasn't at my normal computer yesterday, so I didn't run the example.  I
thought "rgl" was one of those color palette generator packages.  So, my
suggestion of using animation was completely off base (oops).

But I did notice two other things:
1) your color column changes from a factor to a character when you redefine
it (assuming you have not changed the default option stringsAsFactors=TRUE).

In your original data frame you may want to set stringsAsFactors=FALSE, or
plot using the factor level names:
plot3d(clusset[ ,(1:3)], xlim=c(0,25), ylim=c(0,25), zlim=c(0,25),
xlab='',ylab='',zlab='',
    col=levels(clusset$dotcol)[clusset$dotcol], radius=1, type='s')
see str(clusset$dotcol) before and after you redefine your data frame

2) Also you're plotting the whole data frame, including your color column.
So, you may want to use something like the above to keep just the first
three columns.




On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Dale Coons <dale.coons@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to several who responded--I should have looked (doh!) in the
> documentation.  play3d()  and movie3d() were just the ticket!
>
> On 7/28/2011 4:48 PM, Jean V Adams wrote:
> >
> > Dale,
> >
> > I do not have the same color problem when I run your code on my PC.
> >  The colors in both devices look the same.  I'm running R version
> > 2.13.0 on Windows.
> >
> > I am not familiar with the rgl package, but I found a function that
> > might be helpful to you when I searched for "gif" in the package
> > reference manual.
> >
> > ?movie3d()
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Jean
> >
> >
> > `·.,, ><(((º>   `·.,, ><(((º>   `·.,, ><(((º>
> >
> > Jean V. Adams
> > Statistician
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> >
> >
> > From:         Dale Coons <dale.coons@gmail.com>
> > To:   r-help@r-project.org
> > Date:         07/28/2011 03:22 PM
> > Subject:      [R] Animated gif or something similar in R?
> > Sent by:      r-help-bounces@r-project.org
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm have a (minor) problem and a question.
> > Problem: The following code creates 5 clusters of dots of different
> > colors.  However, I need the second call outside the data.frame call to
> > get the colors to change for some reason.  I assume there's an error in
> > the data.frame() call, but I don't know what.
> > Question: Is there is a way to cause the resulting graphic to rotate on
> > it's own and to output to a animated gif or some other format that could
> > be used in a powerpoint type presentation?  I work with a bunch of
> > 'drama queens'--they'd like it if there was some motion rather than a
> > static display ;-)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dale.
> >
> > library(rgl)
> >
> clusset<-data.frame(x=c(round(abs(rnorm(5,7,1)),1),round(abs(rnorm(5,11,2)),1),
> >
> >
> round(abs(rnorm(5,16,2)),1),round(abs(rnorm(5,20,1.5)),1),round(abs(rnorm(5,5,2)),1)),
> >
> > y=c(round(abs(rnorm(5,7,2)),1),round(abs(rnorm(5,11,2)),1),
> >
> >
> round(abs(rnorm(5,16,2)),1),round(abs(rnorm(5,4,2)),1),round(abs(rnorm(5,7,2)),1)),
> >
> > z=c(round(abs(rnorm(5,7,2)),1),round(abs(rnorm(5,12,2)),1),
> >
> >
> round(abs(rnorm(5,16,1)),1),round(abs(rnorm(5,6,2)),1),round(abs(rnorm(5,17,2)),1)),
> >
> >
> dotcol=c(rep('red2',5),rep('green2',5),rep('blue2',5),rep('yellow1',5),rep('purple2',5))
> >                     )
> >
> > #this call doesn't show the right colors--why?
> > plot3d(clusset, xlim=c(0,25), ylim=c(0,25),
> > zlim=c(0,25),xlab='',ylab='',zlab='',  col=clusset$dotcol, radius=1,
> > type='s')
> > #but if I redefine the colors again and call, it does
> >
> clusset$dotcol<-c(rep('red2',5),rep('green2',5),rep('blue2',5),rep('yellow1',5),rep('purple2',5))
> > plot3d(clusset, xlim=c(0,25), ylim=c(0,25),
> > zlim=c(0,25),xlab='',ylab='',zlab='', col=clusset$dotcol, radius=1,
> > type='s')
> >
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