At the bottom you asked for package recs: Karline Soetaert's (excuse any misspelling) plot3D package should be examined.
I didn't find the fine-grained example that I remember seeing but this is an example in RGL code: http://markmail.org/message/wgetbk5h3f7zrfd4 -- David. On Jun 4, 2015, at 1:16 PM, m...@considine.net wrote: > I am trying to closely reproduce the 3d yield curve chart that showed up in > the New York Times in March, as seen here > > http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/19/upshot/3d-yield-curve-economic-growth.html?ref=economy&abt=0002&abg=0 > > Working with chartSeries3d0 gets me close, but not quite there : > > library(xts) > > chartSeries3d0 <- > function(Z, theta=30, r=10, col=c("yellow","red"), smoother=1, border=NA, > shade=.3, > phi=10,scale=FALSE,expand=1,lphi=20,box=FALSE, #mattc > ltheta=20, x.cex=.75, srt=0,...) { snipped code and data > > Can anyone suggest a different package to work with to get closer to the > above-mentioned output? I'm interested in figuring out how to smooth the > color transitions, add the grid/gridlines and use a different set of color > gradients when the values are negative. Also, I realize that my colors > transition along the wrong axis (1m, 3m, etc) rather than along y. > > Thanks in advance. I've tried to find a reference to this in the archives > and have come up empty. As well, I've tried to make this reproducible. > Matt > I'm reasonably sure that MatLab has a function for this sort of dispaly and requests for duplicating it with R facilities have been satisfied. -- David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
