scatter3d {car} R Documentation

## Three-Dimensional Scatterplots and Point Identification

### Description

The scatter3d function uses the rgl package to draw 3D scatterplots with various regression surfaces. The function Identify3d allows you to label points interactively with the mouse: Press the right mouse button (on a two-button mouse) or the centre button (on a three-button mouse), drag a rectangle around the points to be identified, and release the button. Repeat this procedure for each point or set of “nearby” points to be identified. To exit from point-identification mode, click the right (or centre) button in an empty region of the plot.

### Usage

scatter3d(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'formula'
scatter3d(formula, data, subset, radius, xlab, ylab, zlab, id=FALSE, ...)

## Default S3 method:
scatter3d(x, y, z,
xlab=deparse(substitute(x)), ylab=deparse(substitute(y)),
zlab=deparse(substitute(z)), axis.scales=TRUE, axis.ticks=FALSE,
revolutions=0,
bg.col=c("white", "black"),
axis.col=if (bg.col == "white") c("darkmagenta", "black", "darkcyan")
else c("darkmagenta", "white", "darkcyan"),
surface.col=carPalette()[-1], surface.alpha=0.5,
neg.res.col="magenta", pos.res.col="cyan",
square.col=if (bg.col == "white") "black" else "gray",
point.col="yellow", text.col=axis.col,
grid.col=if (bg.col == "white") "black" else "gray",
fogtype=c("exp2", "linear", "exp", "none"),
residuals=(length(fit) == 1),
surface=TRUE, fill=TRUE,
fit="linear", groups=NULL, parallel=TRUE,
ellipsoid=FALSE, level=0.5, ellipsoid.alpha=0.1, id=FALSE,
model.summary=FALSE, ...)

Identify3d(x, y, z, axis.scales=TRUE, groups = NULL, labels = 1:length(x),
col = c("blue", "green", "orange", "magenta", "cyan", "red", "yellow", "gray"),
offset = ((100/length(x))^(1/3)) * 0.02)


### Arguments

 formula “model” formula, of the form y ~ x + z or to plot by groups y ~ x + z | g, where g evaluates to a factor or other variable dividing the data into groups. data data frame within which to evaluate the formula. subset expression defining a subset of observations. x variable for horizontal axis. y variable for vertical axis (response). z variable for out-of-screen axis. xlab, ylab, zlab axis labels. axis.scales if TRUE, label the values of the ends of the axes. Note: For Identify3d to work properly, the value of this argument must be the same as in scatter3d. axis.ticks if TRUE, print interior axis-“tick” labels; the default is FALSE. (The code for this option was provided by David Winsemius.) revolutions number of full revolutions of the display. bg.col background colour; one of "white", "black". axis.col colours for axes; if axis.scales is FALSE, then the second colour is used for all three axes. surface.col vector of colours for regression planes, used in the order specified by fit; for multi-group plots, the colours are used for the regression surfaces and points in the several groups. surface.alpha transparency of regression surfaces, from 0.0 (fully transparent) to 1.0 (opaque); default is 0.5. neg.res.col, pos.res.col colours for lines representing negative and positive residuals. square.col colour to use to plot squared residuals. point.col colour of points. text.col colour of axis labels. grid.col colour of grid lines on the regression surface(s). fogtype type of fog effect; one of "exp2", "linear", "exp", "none". residuals plot residuals if TRUE; if residuals="squares", then the squared residuals are shown as squares (using code adapted from Richard Heiberger). Residuals are available only when there is one surface plotted. surface plot surface(s) (TRUE or FALSE). fill fill the plotted surface(s) with colour (TRUE or FALSE). grid plot grid lines on the regression surface(s) (TRUE or FALSE). grid.lines number of lines (default, 26) forming the grid, in each of the x and z directions. df.smooth degrees of freedom for the two-dimensional smooth regression surface; if NULL (the default), the gam function will select the degrees of freedom for a smoothing spline by generalized cross-validation; if a positive number, a fixed regression spline will be fit with the specified degrees of freedom. df.additive degrees of freedom for each explanatory variable in an additive regression; if NULL (the default), the gam function will select degrees of freedom for the smoothing splines by generalized cross-validation; if a positive number or a vector of two positive numbers, fixed regression splines will be fit with the specified degrees of freedom for each term. sphere.size general size of spheres representing points; the actual size is dependent on the number of observations. radius relative radii of the spheres representing the points. This is normally a vector of the same length as the variables giving the coordinates of the points, and for the formula method, that must be the case or the argument may be omitted, in which case spheres are the same size; for the default method, the default for the argument, 1, produces spheres all of the same size. The radii are scaled so that their median is 1. threshold if the actual size of the spheres is less than the threshold, points are plotted instead. speed relative speed of revolution of the plot. fov field of view (in degrees); controls degree of perspective. fit one or more of "linear" (linear least squares regression), "quadratic" (quadratic least squares regression), "smooth" (nonparametric regression), "additive" (nonparametric additive regression), "robust" (robust linear regression); to display fitted surface(s); partial matching is supported – e.g., c("lin", "quad"). groups if NULL (the default), no groups are defined; if a factor, a different surface or set of surfaces is plotted for each level of the factor; in this event, the colours in surface.col are used successively for the points, surfaces, and residuals corresponding to each level of the factor. parallel when plotting surfaces by groups, should the surfaces be constrained to be parallel? A logical value, with default TRUE. ellipsoid plot concentration ellipsoid(s) (TRUE or FALSE). level expected proportion of bivariate-normal observations included in the concentration ellipsoid(s); default is 0.5. ellipsoid.alpha transparency of ellipsoids, from 0.0 (fully transparent) to 1.0 (opaque); default is 0.1. id FALSE, TRUE, or a list controlling point identification, similar to showLabels for 2D plots (see Details). model.summary print summary or summaries of the model(s) fit (TRUE or FALSE). scatter3d rescales the three variables internally to fit in the unit cube; this rescaling will affect regression coefficients. labels text labels for the points, one for each point; defaults to the observation indices. col colours for the point labels, given by group. There must be at least as many colours as groups; if there are no groups, the first colour is used. Normally, the colours would correspond to the surface.col argument to scatter3d. offset vertical displacement for point labels (to avoid overplotting the points). ... arguments to be passed down.

### Details

The id argument to scatter3d can be FALSE, TRUE (in which case 2 points will be identified according to their Mahalanobis distances from the center of the data), or a list containing any or all of the following elements:

method

if "mahal" (the default), relatively extreme points are identified automatically according to their Mahalanobis distances from the centroid (point of means); if "identify", points are identified interactively by right-clicking and dragging a box around them; right-click in an empty area to exit from interactive-point-identification mode; if "xz", identify extreme points in the predictor plane; if "y", identify unusual values of the response; if "xyz" identify unusual values of an variable; if "none", no point identification. See showLabels for more information.

n

Number of relatively extreme points to identify automatically (default, 2, unless method="identify", in which case identification continues until the user exits).

labels

text labels for the points, one for each point; in the default method defaults to the observation indices, in the formula method to the row names of the data.

offset

vertical displacement for point labels (to avoid overplotting the points).

### Value

scatter3d does not return a useful value; it is used for its side-effect of creating a 3D scatterplot. Identify3d returns the labels of the identified points.

### Note

You have to install the rgl package to produce 3D plots. On a Macintosh (but not on Windows or Linux), you may also need to install the X11 windowing system. Go to https://www.xquartz.org/ and click on the link for XQuartz. Double-click on the downloaded disk-image file, and then double-click on XQuartz.pkg to start the installer. You may take all of the defaults in the installation. After XQuartz is installed, you should restart your Macintosh.

### Author(s)

John Fox jfox@mcmaster.ca

### References

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2019) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition, Sage.

rgl-package, gam

### Examples

    if(interactive() && require(rgl) && require(mgcv)){
scatter3d(prestige ~ income + education, data=Duncan, id=list(n=3))
Sys.sleep(5) # wait 5 seconds
scatter3d(prestige ~ income + education | type, data=Duncan)
Sys.sleep(5)
scatter3d(prestige ~ income + education | type, surface=FALSE,
ellipsoid=TRUE, revolutions=3, data=Duncan)
scatter3d(prestige ~ income + education, fit=c("linear", "additive"),
data=Prestige)
Sys.sleep(5)
scatter3d(prestige ~ income + education | type,