Hi Ian, besides encouraging alternative pdf viewers, you just could thin out your interpolation grid, such as b = seq(-10, 10, 0.02) #instead of 0.0002 and everything goes fine even with AcroRead XI.
Cheers Am 20.02.2013 01:09, schrieb Ian Renner: > Hi, > > I am trying to save a plot as a PDF with different line types. In the example > below, R displays the plot correctly with 2 curves in solid lines, 2 curves > in dashed lines and 1 curve as a dotted line. However, when I save the image > as PDF (as attached), the dashed lines become solid. This also happens if I > use the pdf command directly (by removing the # symbols). > > Is there any way around this? Saving the image as a JPEG or PNG file works > fine but the image quality is not desirable. > > b.hat = 6 > a.1 = -12 > a.2 = 0 > a.3 = 200 > > b = seq(-10, 10, 0.0002) > l = a.1*(b - b.hat)^2 + a.2*(b - b.hat) + a.3 > > lambda = 20 > > p = -lambda*abs(b) > > pen.like = l + p > > y.min = 3*min(p) > y.max = max(c(l, p, pen.like)) > > #pdf(file = "TestPlot.pdf", 6, 6) > #{ > plot(b, l, type = "l", ylim = c(y.min, y.max), lwd = 2, xlab = > expression(beta), ylab = "", col = "green", yaxt = "n", xaxt = "n") > points(b, p, type = "l", lty = "dotted", lwd = 2, col = "red") > points(b, pen.like, type = "l", lwd = 2, lty = "dashed", col = "green") > > axis(1, at = c(0)) > axis(2, at = c(0)) > > lambda.hat = which.max(pen.like) > lambda.glm = which(b == b.hat) > > points(b[lambda.glm], l[lambda.glm], pch = 16, cex = 1.5) > points(b[lambda.hat], l[lambda.hat], pch = 17, cex = 1.5) > > b.hat = -3 > a.1 = -1.5 > a.2 = 0 > a.3 = 120 > > l = a.1*(b - b.hat)^2 + a.2*(b - b.hat) + a.3 > > pen.like = l + p > > points(b, l, type = "l", lwd = 2, col = "blue") > points(b, pen.like, type = "l", lwd = 2, lty = "dashed", col = "blue") > > lambda.hat = which.max(pen.like) > lambda.glm = which(b == b.hat) > > points(b[lambda.glm], l[lambda.glm], pch = 16, cex = 1.5) > points(b[lambda.hat], l[lambda.hat], pch = 17, cex = 1.5) > > abline(h = 0) > abline(v = 0) > > #} > > #dev.off() > > > Thanks, > > Ian > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Eik Vettorazzi Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Martinistr. 52 20246 Hamburg T ++49/40/7410-58243 F ++49/40/7410-57790 -- Pflichtangaben gemäß Gesetz über elektronische Handelsregister und Genossenschaftsregister sowie das Unternehmensregister (EHUG): Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf; Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts; Gerichtsstand: Hamburg Vorstandsmitglieder: Prof. Dr. Martin Zeitz (Vorsitzender), Dr. Alexander Kirstein, Joachim Prölß, Prof. Dr. Dr. Uwe Koch-Gromus ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.