Hello! I have a problem creating a fitting plane through my 3d-data set. here is a sample how my set looks like (x,y,z (with z increasing)):
> dataset [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] -1.3712 -3.1551 10 [2,] -1.2690 -3.0751 10 [3,] -1.1216 -2.9768 10 [4,] -0.9875 -2.8987 10 [5,] -0.4021 -2.7542 10 [6,] 0.0048 -2.6568 10 [7,] 0.1642 -2.6071 10 [8,] 0.0720 -2.5816 10 [9,] -0.2961 -2.5552 10 [10,] -0.7770 -2.5118 10 [11,] -1.0970 -2.4508 10 [12,] -1.2456 -2.3786 10 [13,] -1.4179 -2.3276 10 [14,] -1.7759 -2.2667 10 [15,] -2.2801 -3.4330 11 [16,] -2.0254 -3.3232 11 [17,] -1.8960 -3.2282 11 [18,] -1.7148 -3.1101 11 [19,] -1.5559 -3.0150 11 [20,] -0.8677 -2.8460 11 [21,] -0.3568 -2.7250 11 [22,] -0.1721 -2.6692 11 [23,] -0.2951 -2.6373 11 [24,] -0.7103 -2.5965 11 [25,] -1.3342 -2.5458 11 [26,] -1.6955 -2.4662 11 [27,] -1.8697 -2.3821 11 [28,] -2.0863 -2.3138 11 [29,] -2.4981 -2.2376 11 [30,] -3.0639 -3.6329 12 [31,] -2.7939 -3.5062 12 [32,] -2.5782 -3.3798 12 [33,] -2.3708 -3.2439 12 [34,] -2.1916 -3.1285 12 [35,] -1.3914 -2.9368 12 [36,] -0.7883 -2.7911 12 [37,] -0.5625 -2.7263 12 [38,] -0.6858 -2.6882 12 [39,] -1.2123 -2.6343 12 [40,] -1.9606 -2.5708 12 [41,] -2.3586 -2.4765 12 [42,] -2.5972 -2.3738 12 [43,] -2.7832 -2.2905 12 [44,] -3.3004 -2.1983 12 [45,] -3.8862 -3.8286 13 [46,] -3.5691 -3.6789 13 [47,] -3.3333 -3.5338 13 [48,] -3.0851 -3.3760 13 [49,] -2.8812 -3.2451 13 [50,] -1.9070 -3.0168 13 [51,] -1.2529 -2.8556 13 [52,] -0.9685 -2.7769 13 [53,] -1.1275 -2.7322 13 [54,] -1.7272 -2.6625 13 [55,] -2.5896 -2.5866 13 [56,] -3.0374 -2.4728 13 [57,] -3.3758 -2.3541 13 [58,] -3.5959 -2.2514 13 [59,] -4.1466 -2.1419 13 [60,] -4.8565 -4.0770 14 [61,] -4.5154 -3.9081 14 [62,] -4.1926 -3.7312 14 [63,] -3.8720 -3.5449 14 [64,] -3.6627 -3.3992 14 [65,] -2.5851 -3.1462 14 [66,] -1.7868 -2.9548 14 [67,] -1.4638 -2.8651 14 [68,] -1.6493 -2.8082 14 [69,] -2.3455 -2.7232 14 [70,] -3.3572 -2.6257 14 [71,] -3.8678 -2.4903 14 [72,] -4.1988 -2.3545 14 [73,] -4.5039 -2.2328 14 [74,] -5.0707 -2.1091 14 i want to have an analytical expression of a plane, which is smooth and connects all data points. can anybody help? thank you!! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/fitting-plane-to-3dim-set-of-data-tp4480599p4480599.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.