R help - Apr 2006 - (Fwd) Re: Reading xyz data from a file and plotting a cont

BTW. I checked help page of contour and maybe it could mention a note 
about akima package or interp function.

Petr


------- Forwarded message follows -------
From:           	Petr Pikal <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
To:             	"Abhinav Verma" <abhinav1205 at gmail.com>,
r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:        	Re: [R] Reading xyz data from a file and plotting a contour
plot
Date sent:      	Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:39:38 +0200

Hi

On 5 Apr 2006 at 10:44, Abhinav Verma wrote:

Date sent:      	Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:44:41 +0200
From:           	"Abhinav Verma" <abhinav1205 at gmail.com>
To:             	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:        	[R] Reading xyz data from a file and plotting a
contour plot

Petr Pikal
petr.pikal at precheza.cz

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Petr Pikal wrote:
> BTW. I checked help page of contour and maybe it could mention a note
> about akima package or interp function.
We don't generally link from standard packages to contributed ones. In 
this case, there is a long history of unreliability of the R version of 
akima (the MASS examples still do not work correctly on Windows), and 
there are also many other interpolation methods, and yet more smoothing 
ones.
>
> Petr
>
>
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> To:             	"Abhinav Verma" <abhinav1205 at
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> Subject:        	Re: [R] Reading xyz data from a file and plotting a
contour plot
> Date sent:      	Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:39:38 +0200
>
> Hi
>
> On 5 Apr 2006 at 10:44, Abhinav Verma wrote:
>
> Date sent:      	Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:44:41 +0200
> From:           	"Abhinav Verma" <abhinav1205 at gmail.com>
> To:             	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject:        	[R] Reading xyz data from a file and plotting a
> contour plot
>
> Petr Pikal
> petr.pikal at precheza.cz
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