Re: [Rd] persp command

2018-07-16 Thread Christian Rau
Dear Robert, Thank you for pointing out the existence of the two different conventions in mathematics and physics --- sorry that I hadn't investigated this in advance. As far as I am aware, the mathematicians use the "physics" convention quite often, but can certainly accept the different conventi

Re: [Rd] persp command

2018-07-16 Thread Robert Baer
On 7/16/2018 7:28 AM, Christian Rau wrote: Dear R-devel mailing list, I am wondering whether the "theta" and "phi" parameters of the "persp" function in the graphics commands are named in error (the names seem to have been swapped). Not that it is authoritative, but one gleans from wikipedia,

[Rd] persp command

2018-07-16 Thread Christian Rau
Dear R-devel mailing list, I am wondering whether the "theta" and "phi" parameters of the "persp" function in the graphics commands are named in error (the names seem to have been swapped). Also, in the documentation to "persp", reference is made to "colatitude" when the effect in the image is act