Re: [R] help with cube3d cube size

2008-06-26 Thread Mark Kimpel
Duncan & Ben, Thanks for giving me some tips as to how I can best investigate packages. I"ve been using ESS-Emacs and the help pages are HTML. Looks like I need to figure out how to enable HTML help. As for a draft vignette, sure, I would be happy (and honored) to contribute as best I can. I woul

Re: [R] help with cube3d cube size

2008-06-26 Thread Ben Bolker
One way to get at all the functions (although not as easy as help() is library(rgl); ls(pos=2) which literally lists the available functions. As Duncan said, there are multiple functions documented in each page and only the page definitions show up (e.g. "matrices" is the page for "work[ing

Re: [R] help with cube3d cube size

2008-06-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Mark Kimpel wrote: Thanks for the pointers. I think the package is great, just want to use it to its full potential without driving the list crazy with questions. Below is my output to help and sessionInfo(). I don't see the scaling functions, although I now see that they can be retrieved with ?

Re: [R] help with cube3d cube size

2008-06-25 Thread Mark Kimpel
Thanks for the pointers. I think the package is great, just want to use it to its full potential without driving the list crazy with questions. Below is my output to help and sessionInfo(). I don't see the scaling functions, although I now see that they can be retrieved with ?matrices. You guys ar

Re: [R] help with cube3d cube size

2008-06-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Mark Kimpel wrote: Ben and Duncan, Thanks for your helpful suggestions. I"m having some difficulty navigating this really good package using my normal learning techniques. When I do 'help(package = "rgl") it seems only a very small subset of functions available show up. I think the full list s

Re: [R] help with cube3d cube size

2008-06-25 Thread Mark Kimpel
Ben and Duncan, Thanks for your helpful suggestions. I"m having some difficulty navigating this really good package using my normal learning techniques. When I do 'help(package = "rgl") it seems only a very small subset of functions available show up. Perusing the rgl.pdf downloaded from CRAN demo

Re: [R] help with cube3d cube size

2008-06-24 Thread Ben Bolker
Mark Kimpel gmail.com> writes: > > I'm using the command below on an open3d() object to create a shaded > cube. Changes to myScalingFactor do not effect changes in the size of > the cube. What is the correct approach? Mark how about scale3d() ? shade3d(translate3d(scale3d(cube3d(),5,5,5),-

Re: [R] help with cube3d cube size

2008-06-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Mark Kimpel wrote: I'm using the command below on an open3d() object to create a shaded cube. Changes to myScalingFactor do not effect changes in the size of the cube. What is the correct approach? Mark shade3d(translate3d(cube3d(identityMatrix() * myScalingFactor),-6,1,-1),col="green", alpha =

[R] help with cube3d cube size

2008-06-24 Thread Mark Kimpel
I'm using the command below on an open3d() object to create a shaded cube. Changes to myScalingFactor do not effect changes in the size of the cube. What is the correct approach? Mark shade3d(translate3d(cube3d(identityMatrix() * myScalingFactor),-6,1,-1),col="green", alpha = 0.2) -- Mark W. Kim