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3D plot not working as desired!

2 messages · kim83@uiuc.edu, Duncan Murdoch

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Hello R-users!

I am trying to plot 3 vectors (x,y,z) of observations
generated by mvrnorm in library(MASS).

I tried plot3d in library(djmrgl) and scatterplot3d.
But these program gives x,y,z axis which do not 
intersect at the origin (0,0,0). 

I searched through all the graphics related packages
for R like xgobi, ggobi, grid and more. Quite
confusing which one to choose.

Would anyone recommend any way to plot the 3-dimensional
randomly generated numbers? It would be very nice if it
can create 95% confidence region ellisoid around the
observations, just like the 95% confidence ellipse around
the bivariate normal random numbers.

Thanks in advance!

Sangwhan Kim
Department of Economics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 01:50:04 -0600, <kim83 at uiuc.edu> wrote :
The default in R is to create axes outside the range of your data, and
that's what djmrgl and scatterplot3d do.  In djmrgl you can control
the placement of the axes if you really want them in the middle of
your data, but why would you want that?? 

See the example in ?axis3d for details.
I don't know a package that does that, but there probably is one.

Duncan Murdoch