[R] Plotting tidal speed and direction in R

Charles Berry
Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:18:07 -0000

zoeita <zoe-allcock <at> live.co.uk> writes:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have had a look around the forums and I can't seem to find anything
that
> works with my data.  I have lats, longs, time, tidal speed and direction
and
> need to plot this in an xy plot to determine changes over time. contour and
> cloud have been recommended to me as a way to do this but I can't
figure out
> how to get 5 dimensions into this.  I want lat and long as my x and y, time
> as my z, direction as w and speed as different colours.  I imagine it's
a
> lot easier than I think it is - I am very new to R.  Could anyone please
> help with a starting point for this?

See

 http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/03/see-the-wind.html

and the links therein.

HTH,

Chuck

[snip]