rotate.cloud: Interactively rotate 3D plots
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Interactively rotate common 3d plots: cloud, persp, and wireframe.

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rotate.cloud(x, ...)
rotate.persp(x, y, z)
rotate.wireframe(x, ...)

`x`	`x`, see `persp`, or formula/matrix to pass to cloud or wireframe
`y`	`y`, see `persp`
`z`	`z`, see `persp`
`...`	additional arguments passed on to `cloud` or `persp`

Use these functions just like cloud, persp, and wireframe. In addition to the default plot a Tk slider window will be created that will allow you to rotate the plot.

The rotations parameters are passed the screen argument of cloud and wireframe and the theta, phi, r, d, ltheta, lphi, and shade arguments of persp.

For cloud and wireframe plots the order of the x, y, and z argumets can be rearanged, just type the appropriate letters in the boxes on the left, then press the "refresh" button (changing the order changes the plot for these 2 plots).

These functions are run for the side effects of the plots and Tk windows, nothing meaninful is returned.

Greg Snow 538280@gmail.com

cloud it the lattice package, persp, wireframe in the lattice package

if(interactive()){
rotate.cloud(Sepal.Length ~ Petal.Length*Petal.Width, data=iris)

rotate.wireframe(volcano)

z <- 2 * volcano        # Exaggerate the relief
x <- 10 * (1:nrow(z))   # 10 meter spacing (S to N)
y <- 10 * (1:ncol(z))   # 10 meter spacing (E to W)
rotate.persp(x,y,z)
}