Speaker: Dr. Duncan Murdoch, University of Western Ontario
Department of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences

Title: Recent Developments in rgl

Abstract: R is an open source statistical package with a very large number of
contributors, many of whom write add-on packages (modules) of code and
documentation for use in the base package. In 2001, I wrote an R
package called rgl to allow three dimensional
dynamic graphics in R for Windows. In 2002, Daniel Adler independently
wrote a platform-independent 3-D graphics package with the same name,
as his thesis work at the University of Goettingen. Soon after that we
decided to merge our efforts.

In this talk I will survey rgl capabilities, concentrating on recent
additions such as functions to generate 3D shapes, input and output
capabilities, and ways to allow multiple figures to appear
in the same window, controlled either independently or together.
Examples using rgl in teaching linear algebra and statistics
will be shown.

An audio recording of the talk is here, and the slides are here.
There are also three files that are needed which are here, here and here (right click and save).