plot3D {compositions} | R Documentation

## 3D-plot of compositional data

### Description

3D-plot of compositional data. The plot is mainly an exploratory tool, not intended for exact display of data.

### Usage

     ## S3 method for class 'acomp':
     plot3D(x, parts=1:min(ncol(X),4),...,
                 lwd=2, axis.col="gray", add=FALSE, cex=2,
                 vlabs=colnames(x), vlabs.col=axis.col, center=FALSE,
                 scale=FALSE, log=FALSE, bbox=FALSE, axes=TRUE, size=cex)
    ## S3 method for class 'rcomp':
    plot3D(x,parts=1:min(ncol(X),4),...,
                 lwd=2,axis.col="gray",add=FALSE,cex=2,
                 vlabs=colnames(x),vlabs.col=axis.col,center=FALSE,
                 scale=FALSE,log=FALSE,bbox=FALSE,axes=TRUE,size=cex)

### Arguments

`x` | an aplus object to be plotted
`parts` | a numeric xor character vector of length 3 coding the columns to be plotted
`...` | additional plotting parameters as described in `rgl.material`
`add` | logical, adding or new plot
`cex` | size of the plotting symbols
`lwd` | line width
`axis.col` | color of the axis
`vlabs` | the column names to be plotted, if missing defaults to the column names of the selected columns of X
`vlabs.col` | color of the labels
`center` | logical, should the data be centered
`scale` | logical, should the data be scaled
`log` | logical, indicating wether to plot in log scale
`bbox` | logical, whether to add a bounding box
`axes` | logical, whether plot a coordinate cross
`size` | size of the plotting symbols

### Details

The routine behaves different when 3 or four components should be plotted. In case of four components:
If log is TRUE the data is plotted in `ilr` coordinates. This is the isometric view of the data.
If log is FALSE the data is plotted in `ipt` coordinates and a tetrahedron is plotted around it if `coors == TRUE`. This can be used to do a tetrahedron plot.
In case of three components:
If log is TRUE the data is plotted in `clr` coordinates. This can be used to visualize the clr plane.
If log is FALSE the data is plotted as is, showing the embedding of the three-part simplex in the three-dimensional space.
In all cases: If `coors` is true, coordinate arrows are plotted of length 1 in the origin of the space, except in the tetrahedron case.

### Value

Called for its side effect of a 3D plot of an acomp object in an rgl plot.

### Note

The function `kingTetrahedron` provides an alternate way of tetrahedron plots, based on a more advanced viewer, which must be downloaded separately.

### Author(s)

K.Gerald v.d. Boogaart http://www.stat.boogaart.de

### See Also

`kingTetrahedron` `points3D`, `plot3D`, `plot`, `plot3D.rmult`,

`plot3D.acomp`,`plot3D.rcomp`,, `plot3D.aplus`,`plot3D.rplus`

### Examples

    data(SimulatedAmounts)
    plot3D(acomp(sa.lognormals5),1:3)
    plot3D(acomp(sa.lognormals5),1:3,log=TRUE)
    plot3D(acomp(sa.lognormals5),1:4)
    plot3D(acomp(sa.lognormals5),1:4,log=TRUE)

[Package compositions version 0.91-6 Index]