Thank you very much for the suggestion. And while I'm here, thank you for vegan and the documentation that goes with it.
>Function ordiplot3d uses scatterplot3d, and it returns also all >scatterplot3d items, like functions xyz.converter and points3d that >can be used for tuning labels. I tried ordilabel(pl$arrows) but the labels only seem to be in two dimensions. >With ordixyplot I can see no other choice than that you edit the >function and preferably contribute your edited function to vegan >(and will be credited with the function help). I'm not a skilled enough user of R to edit the ordixyplot function - so I'll pass on that invitation to anyone else who reads this thread? Thanks again, Briony Briony <brionynorton <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Hi R experts, > > I'm looking for some help with plotting vectors from envfit in vegan, onto > a > 3d plot using ordiplot3d. So far I have > > data.mds <- metaMDS(data, k=3,trace = FALSE) > vect_data<-envfit(data.mds,vegdata[,3:21],choices=1:3,permu=9999) > ordiplot3d(data.mds,envfit=vect_data) > ordixyplot(data.mds,pch=pts,envfit=vect_data) > > (my data's not really called data, I thought it might be easier to > communicate this way) > > These display the vectors as arrows, but what I would really like is for > the > arrows to be labelled, like what comes up automatically in ordirgl or with > a > 2D ordiplot. > > I've gone through the help and tried everything I can work out, but I must > be missing something important, because nothing's worked so far. I would > be > happy to use ordixyplot and show a series of 2D plots, but I can't get > labels on those arrows either. > > Any pointers in the right direction would be gratefully received. > Briony Briony, There really is no way to do this automatically, but if someone fixes the functions, we are happy to incorporate those changes in vegan. You may be able to achieve something like that with ordiplot3d, but I am not sure it looks completely satisfactory. Function ordiplot3d returns invisibly the plotting object which contains, among other items. the coordinates of arrow heads in the flattened graph. So this could work: pl <- ordiplot3d(data.mds,envfit=vect_data) ordilabel(pl$arrows) Function ordiplot3d uses scatterplot3d, and it returns also all scatterplot3d items, like functions xyz.converter and points3d that can be used for tuning labels. With ordixyplot I can see no other choice than that you edit the function and preferably contribute your edited function to vegan (and will be credited with the function help). Cheers, Jari Oksanen ______________________________________________ [hidden email] mailing list 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. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/envfit-vector-labels-with-ordiplot3d-tp3800669p3807015.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
