[R] 3D graphics with R

[Richard Rowe]

At 18:39 18/05/02 -0400, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>On 05/18/02 23:25, Johannes Schulte wrote:
> >Is there any graphical frontend/secondary programm (freely availible for
> >Windowsor Linux) which can be used with R to display the results of a
> >principle component analysis in 3D space (rotatable!?)? It works with
> >Spotfire, but is there any freely or cheaply availible programmß
>
>I don't think so.  But take a look at biplot in the mva package,
>which produces VERY interesting plots in _two_ dimensions, and
>the xgobi package, which produces 3D plots that can be rotated
>(as I recall - I find these too mind-boggling to deal with, so I
>don't use it anymore).  Perhaps you can make a "triplot"
>function.

The development stage Rgl package by Duncan Murdoch (Windows only, 
available at http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software ) and the 
late development ggobi (http://www.ggobi.org) may be good starting points,

Richard Rowe

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