[R] Scatterplot3d :: Rotating x tick labels by x degrees

[Alex Restrepo]

Hello,

David, don’t worry about answering this question or any of my inquiries in the future.  Not looking for code servants. Definitely not an expert at using the scatter plot 3D  library.  That being said, I plan on researching rgl as was recommended so kindly on a previous response to my question.

Regards, Alex

On Oct 31, 2017, at 4:13 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net<mailto:dwinsemius at comcast.net>> wrote:


On Oct 31, 2017, at 8:55 AM, Olivier Crouzet <olivier.crouzet at univ-nantes.fr<mailto:olivier.crouzet at univ-nantes.fr>> wrote:

Hi Alex,

this should be related to the "las" argument of "par()" but
actually it does not seem to be parametered in scatterplot3d.
Searching the net for "scatterplot3d las" provides a link to:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25458652/specifying-the-orientation-of-the-axes-labels-in-scatterplot3d

You may try the solution that is provided in this link or consider using
alternate packages (like rgl or the plotly packages which one may be
more powerfull as far as I can judge). However I can't help more. It
seems ggplot does not produce 3d plots (but it looks like it can
interact with plotly when using 3d plots).

Olivier;

The cited SO solutions (mine being the first one)  were addressing the request for rotated "axis"-labels rather than rotated "axtick"-labels, although the general strategy of looking at the code and using the `text`-function with xpd=TRUE (rather than the `mtext`-function where needed in the definitions of mytext and mytext2) should apply.

Alex;

I'd encourage you to demonstrate more initiative rather than expecting us to be on-call code servants.  I've decided to limit my gratis coding time to 15 minutes daily. I think this might take me an hour or more. I'm still available for on-list code review on this effort.

As a start, I'd suggest downloading the scatterplot3d package code and then open up scatterplot3d.R. Find the comment

## label tick marks

... and perhaps decide whether you need to use `text` rather than `mtext`. (`text` can rotate by any amount,
but may need "xpd" to be set TRUE. `mtext` is limited to 90 degree increments.) I've used up my time, so the next move is yours.
--
David.



Olivier.

On Mon, 30 Oct 2017
23:56:02 +0000 Alex Restrepo <alex.restrepo at outlook.com<mailto:alex.restrepo at outlook.com>> wrote:

Hi,

I would like to rotate the x axis tick labels by 45 degrees.   Using
the code below, could someone please provide an example?   Many
Thanks In Advance, Alex

library("scatterplot3d")
mydf=data.frame(rate=seq(158, 314)
              ,age=seq(1, 157)
              ,market_date=seq(as.Date("2000/1/1"), as.Date
("2003/1/1"), by="7 days"))

mydf$market_date=as.Date(mydf$market_date, format="%Y-%m-%d")

scatterplot3d(mydf$market_date
            ,mydf$rate
            ,mydf$age
            ,x.ticklabs = seq(as.Date("2000/1/1"), as.Date
("2003/1/1"), by="330 days"))


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