Plot points on a sphere in R

Question

Could you help me to make a plot similar to this in R?

I would like to have it interactive such that I could rotate the sphere. I guess I should use r

Answer 1

Wandering in late, I might suggest looking at the packages sphereplot and, if you're feeling really brave, gensphere for highly configurable general placement of points in 3-space.

sphereplot includes simple functions such as (quoting from the man pages)

pointsphere Random sphere pointing
Description Randomly generates data
points within a sphere that are uniformly distributed.
Usage
pointsphere(N = 100, longlim = c(0, 360), latlim = c(-90, 90), rlim = c(0, 1))
Arguments N Number of random points.
longlim Limits of longitude in degrees.
latlim Limits of latitude in degrees.
rlim Limits of radius.