Plot a globe using rgl

Creates a textured sphere and lon/lat coordinate annotations.

Usage

globe(
  R = 1,
  R.grid = 1.05,
  specular = "black",
  axes = FALSE,
  box = FALSE,
  xlab = "",
  ylab = "",
  zlab = ""
)

Arguments

R

Radius of the globe

R.grid

Radius of the annotation sphere.

specular

Light color of specular effect.

axes

If TRUE, plot x, y and z axes.

box

If TRUE, plot a box around the globe.

xlab, ylab, zlab

Axes labels

Value

No value, used for plotting side effect.

Details

This funciton requires the rgl and sphereplot packages.

See also

Other inlabru RGL tools: glplot.SpatialLines(), glplot.SpatialPoints(), glplot.inla.mesh(), glplot()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
if (bru_safe_inla() &&
  require("rgl", quietly = TRUE) &&
  require("sphereplot", quietly = TRUE)) {

  # Load pantropoical dolphin data

  data("mexdolphin", package = "inlabru")

  # Show the globe

  globe()

  # Add mesh, ship transects and dolphin sightings stored
  # as inla.mesh, SpatialLines and SpatialPoints objects, respectively

  glplot(mexdolphin$mesh)
  glplot(mexdolphin$samplers)
  glplot(mexdolphin$points)
}
}