Hi all, As far as I understood from the documentation of xgobi. The package is intended to plot data in 3D (and more). Why if I enter example(xgobi) nothing displays even though the example calls also the xgobi command (yes I did load the library)? Do I need to install anything else for xgobi to work? I use R 1.6.1. on Windows 2000 platform or R 1.5.1 with RedHat 7.3 (none works). Miha
Miha STAUT wrote:> Hi all, > > As far as I understood from the documentation of xgobi. The package is > intended to plot data in 3D (and more). Why if I enter example(xgobi) > nothing displays even though the example calls also the xgobi command > (yes I did load the library)? Do I need to install anything else for > xgobi to work? I use R 1.6.1. on Windows 2000 platform or R 1.5.1 with > RedHat 7.3 (none works). > > MihaFrom library(help=xgobi): "Suggests: xgobi must be installed additionally, see file INSTALL." For the Windows version: Do you have adapted the *.bat file? For Linux: Is xgobi in your search path? Uwe Ligges
On 03/16/03 11:49, Miha STAUT wrote:>Hi all, > >As far as I understood from the documentation of xgobi. The package is >intended to plot data in 3D (and more). Why if I enter example(xgobi) >nothing displays even though the example calls also the xgobi command (yes I >did load the library)? Do I need to install anything else for xgobi to work? >I use R 1.6.1. on Windows 2000 platform or R 1.5.1 with RedHat 7.3 (none >works).Perhaps the documentation of the xgobi library could be clearer, but it does say (in the xgobi function): "The R function xgobi executes a call to the C program of the same name, an interactive statistical graphics program which runs under the X Window System, and returns control of the R command line to the user." And then, under "References" it gives links to where you can get the xgobi program itself. You don't mention having installed the program, so that is probably your problem. It does work with R 1.6.1 on RH Linux 7.3. (BTW, it is easy to update R. The RPM for 1.6.1 is available on CRAN, although it was never formally announced, as I recall.) -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron Psychology webmaster: http://www.psych.upenn.edu/ R page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ Questionnaires: http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~baron/qs.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "Miha STAUT" <mihastaut at hotmail.com> To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 11:49 PM Subject: [R] xgobi?> Hi all, > > As far as I understood from the documentation of xgobi. The package is > intended to plot data in 3D (and more). Why if I enter example(xgobi) > nothing displays even though the example calls also the xgobi command (yesI> did load the library)? Do I need to install anything else for xgobi towork?> I use R 1.6.1. on Windows 2000 platform or R 1.5.1 with RedHat 7.3 (noneHave you installed xgobi itself? For Linux you can download the source file at http://www.research.att.com/areas/stat/xgobi/index.html and compile it yourself. For Windows you can use (an old version) pre-compiled by Prof. Brian Ripley at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4/Software.html#XGobi , you will also need to have an X-server installed (e.g. XWin 32) on your machine in order to use it. Cheers, K Wang ------------------------------------------------ Ko-Kang Kevin Wang Master of Science (MSc) Student Department of Statistics University of Auckland New Zealand www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022
> As far as I understood from the documentation of xgobi. The package is > intended to plot data in 3D (and more).While xgobi is still available, it is no longer receiving much of its authors' attention. Its successor ggobi (www.ggobi.org), on the other hand, is growing all the time. While xgobi can be launched from R, that is the extent of its relationship to S or R; no live connection between the two processes is maintained. ggobi, on the other hand, is embedded in R and has an API which is expressed in the Rggobi package. The curious are welcome to direct further questions about ggobi and Rggobi to ggobi-help at ggobi.org. Debby