3D Animated Graph - Rotation

For scatter plot:


library(car) library(rgl)


dat <- iris

KM <- kmeans(dat[, 1:4], centers = 3)

scatter3d(
x = dat$Sepal.Length, 
y = dat$Sepal.Width, 
z = dat$Petal.Length, 
bg.col = c("white"), 
ellipsoid.alpha = 0.2, 
xlab = "Sepal.Length", 
ylab = "Sepal.Width", 
zlab = "Petal.Length", 
surface.col = colorRampPalette(c("blue", "yellow", "red"))(length(levels(factor(KM$cluster)))), 
groups = factor(KM$cluster),
grid = FALSE,
surface = FALSE,
ellipsoid = TRUE
)

aspect3d(1,1,1)
          
movie3d(
spin3d(axis = c(0, 1, 0)), 
duration = 25, 
convert = FALSE,
fps = 7, 
movie = "Iris_Cluster", 
dir = getwd()

)


To save the output into a file, ImageMagick needs to be installed first. 

'rgl' package looks for convert.exe file in ImageMagick, so ensure to click the option to install legacy utilities when installing ImageMagick. (Note: the later updates to the packages might have fixed this issue, but older version of Windows could present issues along this line).

Note2: If you are on 32bit Windows, install 32bit ImageMagick.

movie3d(
spin3d(axis = c(0, 1, 0)), 
duration = 25, 
convert = TRUE,
fps = 7, 
movie = "Iris_Cluster", 
dir = getwd()
)

For bar/column chart:

library(lattice)
library(latticeExtra)
library(animation)

Dat <- aggregate(Sepal.Length~Species+Petal.Length, iris, mean)

RotPlot<-function(A){

   for(i in A){

      print(

         cloud(Sepal.Length ~ Species + Petal.Length, Dat, panel.3d.cloud = panel.3dbars,

                screen = list(z = i, x = -60), 

                col.facet=colorRampPalette(c("dodgerblue", "salmon"))(nrow(Dat)),

                xbase = 0.4, ybase = 0.4, scales = list(arrows = FALSE, col = 1),

                col = "white", par.settings = list(axis.line = list(col = "transparent"))

         )

      )

   }

}

ROT<-seq(0,360,by=10)

saveGIF(RotPlot(ROT), interval = 0.5, movie.name = "Iris.gif",

          ani.height = 640, ani.width = 640)