On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.ise...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > I like very much figure 2.a) and 2.b) of this paper > > http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130410/srep01640/pdf/srep01640.pdf > > > and I probably need a similar visualization. > Is anything like that doable in R? I have some experience with R and > gadm (gadm.org), but that is only to produce maps colored according to > a scalar. > I do not know how to visualize maps with a "perspective", let alone > adding the histograms in 3D. > Sorry for not providing an example script, but if I had one I would > not be posting at all.
The panel B maps are "created by using R" so they are definitely doable in R. I suspect they are using the rgl package for 3d graphics. You just have to get the country outline data, give it a Z of 0, draw it using the rgl 3d line functions, then add the bars (they're not histograms) by starting at (x,y,0) and drawing a 3d line to (x,y,H) for each value of H. You might try asking on R-sig-geo for more on mapping stuff with R. Clearly my papers don't have enough 3d nonsense graphics to get into Nature... Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
