R help - Mar 2003 - 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 (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).
> 
> Miha
 From 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.)

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----- 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 (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

Have 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