[R] scatter3d

[Uwe Ligges]

On 03.10.2015 05:45, Jeff Tostenrude wrote:
> Thank you for the suggestion. Yes, it does seem to be a bit
> counter-intuitive, but that is the output I am being asked to produce. I
> have only been using R for a few weeks, so there is probably a better way
> to do it.
>
> Anyway, your suggestion did work, but only up to 337 data points. I am
> dealing with ~100,000 data points so this doesn't really work for me. Is
> there another method you would suggest? My goal is to plot multiple
> regression planes (without points) in an interactive 3d plot.

What does "interactive" mean here? Do you want to turnit around or do 
you want brushing like interactivity?

For the former, I highly suggest to look at the rgl package

Best,
Uwe Ligges


> Thank you,
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>
>> Dear Jeff,
>>
>> I'm tempted to say that a scatterplot without points is an oxymoron, but
>> that wouldn't be very helpful.
>>
>> Actually, the scatter3d() function used by the Rcmdr is in the car
>> package. The Rcmdr 3D scatterplot dialog doesn't provide for suppressing
>> the points, but if you add radius=rep(0, n) to the command that's
>> generated, where you'd replace n with the number of cases in the dataset,
>> that would do the trick by plotting spheres of 0 radius. For example, try
>>
>>          scatter3d(prestige ~ income + education, data=Duncan,
>> radius=rep(0, 45), residuals=FALSE)
>>
>> either in the Rcmdr or at the R command prompt.
>>
>> For more information see ?scatter3d or press the Help button in the Rcmdr
>> 3D scatterplot dialog and follow the link to scatter3d.
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>>   John
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> John Fox, Professor
>> McMaster University
>> Hamilton, Ontario
>> Canada L8S 4M4
>> Web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
>>> Tostenrude
>>> Sent: October 2, 2015 7:34 PM
>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] scatter3d
>>>
>>> I am using scatter3d in R Commander to plot a group of regression
>> surfaces.
>>> However, I only want to display the surfaces. How do I remove the points?
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