R: Data Analysis and Visualization

Creating three-dimensional scatter plots

In this recipe, we will learn how to create three-dimensional scatter plots that can be very useful when we want to explore the relationships between more than two variables at a time.

Getting ready

We need to install and load the scatterplot3d package in order to run this recipe:

install.packages("scatterplot3d")
library(scatterplot3d)

How to do it...

Let's create the simplest default three-dimensional-scatter plot with our mtcars dataset:

scatterplot3d(x=mtcars$wt,
              y=mtcars$disp,
              z=mtcars$mpg)

How it works...

That was easy! The scatterplot3d() functions much like the basic plot() function. In the preceding example, ...