Hey, just another Beginner Question.
So i wanted to 3d plot a data set which has a certain amount of rows and up to 60 columns. Whereas each column should be one "line" in the 3d plot if you understand what I mean. Basically a 2d matrix plotted in 3D. And i first thought, well this is the usual way to plot 3d. In the end a 3d plot is like x*times a 2d plot with the same distance from column to column... But this was wrong i think. I tried many many packages but always they wanted an x,y,z variable . But i had 60 columns so that was a problem I could only fix if i would combine all 60 columns to one. I found in the end the lattice library and the persp function which you can give a 2d matrix and that works generally.
So at this point i started thinking about how all this different packages even work.
My theory is: You give the package 3 variables. You define with X how many points will be plotted in one line. And then the package fills line after line until there is no data available anymore. But i think Iam wrong.
So could somebody please explain for all the Beginners around R how the packages work and how to convert the data so you can use with "any" package altough them being different...
thanks forwarding