How can I do a spinning plot in R?
There are interfaces to XGobi (the xgobi package on CRAN) and GGobi (RSGGobi from Omegahat, and I have a variation on xgobi()) to allow spinning of point clouds. You can spin surfaces in the R<-->GL packages, e.g. Duncan Murdoch's at http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/default.htm and (perhaps: I have not tried this one) Daniel Adler's at http://wsopuppenkiste.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/~dadler/rgl/
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
I have found XLispStat's spinning plots illuminating. I'd like to do the same thing in R. A dozen or so probes with help, help.search, apropos haven't turned up anything, and I've even resorted to grepping through the entire R source distribution looking for 'spin.*plot', to no avail. Either the feature is called something else in R (what?), or it's in some other package in CRAN (which?), or it's not yet available (I hope not, because I am very far from being skilled enough in R programming to do it myself).
(Actually the problem is the user interaction which does not fit well with the S/R graphics model.)
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