Thanks a lot for this really time saving method compared to mine.
Greetings
Birgit
Am 20.07.2007 um 11:53 schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
> On 20/07/2007 5:23 AM, Birgit Lemcke wrote:
>> Hello Jim,
>> thanks for your answer but I still have problems with the
>> labels. Perhaps you can help me a second time.
>> I have the output of cmdscale and it looks like this:
>> [,1] [,2] [,3]
>> Anth_cap -0.011833788 -0.1091355289 -0.0222467839
>> Anth_crin -0.008178993 -0.0219545815 -0.0076695878
>> Anth_eck 0.026900827 -0.0422055677 -0.1340542844
>> Anth_gram -0.010860990 0.0080112322 0.0201743866.........
>> In the next step I created 3 vectors out of the three columns
>> PCoA1<-PCoA[,1]
>> PCoA2<-PCoA[,2]
>> PCoA3<-PCoA[,3]
>> After that I plotted the 3 vectors
>> plot3d(PCoA1,PCoA2,PCoA3, type="p", col=rainbow(1000),size=5)
>
> There's no need to extract the 3 columns: you could just use
>
> plot3d(PCoA, type="p", col=rainbow(1000),size=5)
>
> with the data above.
>> and now I try to handle this text3d function and label the points
>> in the graphic with the names in the first column. But I am a
>> beginner and don´t know the syntax for this in the text3d.
>> I tried to make vectors out of every row like this:
>> Anth_cap<- PCoA[1,]
>> > Anth_crin<- PCoA[2,]
>> > Anth_eck<- PCoA[3,]
>> > Anth_gram<- PCoA[4,]
>> > Anth_insi<- PCoA[5,]
>> > Anth_laxi<- PCoA[6,].........
>> and than tried to implement this in the text3d:
>> text3d( c(Anth_cap,
>> Anth_crin,
>
> I think all you need is
>
> text3d(PCoA, text=Nam)
>
> but you might want to set the adj argument if you want the labels
> offset from the points, and you might want type="n" in the original
> plot3d call if you don't want the points to interfere with the labels.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
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