spinplot {msir}

Rotating three-dimensional plot

Description

General function to draw a rgl-based rotating 3D scatterplot.

Usage

spinplot(x, y, z, 
         scaling = c("abc", "aaa"), 
         rem.lin.trend = FALSE, 
         uncor.vars = FALSE, 
         fit.ols = FALSE, 
         fit.smooth = FALSE, 
         span = 0.75, 
         ngrid = 25, 
         markby, 
         pch.points = 1, 
         col.points = "black", 
         cex.points = 1,
         col.axis   = "gray50", 
         col.smooth = "limegreen", 
         col.ols    = "lightsteelblue",
         background = "white", 
         ...)

Arguments

x

a vector of values for the variable in the horizontal (H) screen axis.

y

a vector of values for the variable in the vertical (V) screen axis.

z

a vector of values for the variable in the out-of-screen (O) axis.

scaling

the scaling applied. Two possible values are "abc" and "aaa".

rem.lin.trend

a logical specifying if the linear trend should be remove. If TRUE then the vertical axis is replaced by e(V|H,O), i.e. the residuals from a linear fit of the vertical axis variable on the others.

uncor.vars

a logical specifying if uncorrelated H and O variables should be used. If TRUE then the O variable is replaced by e(O|H), i.e. the residuals of the regression of O on H, hence obtaining a pair of uncorrelated variables.

fit.ols

a logical specifying if a fitted OLS plane should be included.

fit.smooth

a logical specifying if a nonparametric smoothing plane should be included.

span

the span used by loess to fit the polynomial surface.

ngrid

the number of grid points to use for displaing the fitted plane.

markby

a variable (usually a factor) to be used for marking the points.

pch.points

a vector of symbols for marking the points.

col.points

a vector of colors for marking the points.

cex.points

the cex for points.

col.axis

the color of the axis.

col.ols

the color to be used for drawing the OLS plane.

col.smooth

the color to be used for drawing the smoothing plane.

background

the color of background space.

...

catch further unused arguments.

Details

This function is mainly based on the functionality of the spin-plot function once available in XLisp-Stat software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLispStat, and the adds-on introduced by the Arc software http://www.stat.umn.edu/arc/index.html.

Author(s)

Luca Scrucca [e-mail]

References

Cook R. D., Weisberg S. (1999) Applied Regression Including Computing and Graphics, Wiley, Chapter 8

Examples

## Not run: 
x1 <- rnorm(100)
x2 <- rnorm(100)
y  <- 2*x1 + x2^2 + 0.5*rnorm(100)
spinplot(x1, y, x2)
spinplot(x1, y, x2, scaling = "aaa")
spinplot(x1, y, x2, rem.lin.trend = "TRUE")
spinplot(x1, y, x2, fit.smooth = TRUE)
spinplot(x1, y, x2, fit.ols = TRUE)

x <- iris[,1:3]
y <- iris[,5]
spinplot(x)
spinplot(x, markby = y)
spinplot(x, markby = y, col.points = c("dodgerblue2", "orange", "green3"))
spinplot(x, markby = y, pch = c(0,3,1), col.points = c("dodgerblue2", "orange", "green3"))

# to save plots use 
# rgl.postscript("plot.pdf", fmt="pdf")
# or
# rgl.snapshot("plot.png")

## End(Not run)