Re: [R] Display time of PDF plots

2018-09-05 Thread MacQueen, Don via R-help
(this is somewhat a change of subject from the original question) Rich, there functions such as aggregate() in base R. There are also many options in CRAN packages. But I tend to have difficulty getting them to do exactly what I want, and usually end up rolling my own. The idea is to split the

Re: [R] Display time of PDF plots

2018-09-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Is there a process by which these plots can be 'thinned' so they show the same overall patterns but with fewer points so they display more quickly? Bert/Paul/David/John: Thanks very much for the suggestions. I think an appropriate way to illustrate th

Re: [R] Display time of PDF plots

2018-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Sorkin, John wrote: Might it help to take a random subset of the data and plot the sub set? If the relation is linear you could include a regression line obtained from the entire data set John, I'll definitely explore this option. Thanks for the idea. Regards, Rich __

Re: [R] Display time of PDF plots

2018-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, David L Carlson wrote: If the plot is being displayed on a monitor, it is being bitmapped to the resolution of the display device regardless of how you save it. Most computer monitors are about 100dpi. David, I'm looking at the report on the monitor. I suspect that most

Re: [R] Display time of PDF plots

2018-09-03 Thread David L Carlson
If the plot is being displayed on a monitor, it is being bitmapped to the resolution of the display device regardless of how you save it. Most computer monitors are about 100dpi. If the problem is that the points are overprinting, Bert's suggestion to use hexbin() is the way to go. If the poin

Re: [R] Display time of PDF plots

2018-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Bert Gunter wrote: 1. Plot a random sample of the points (e.g. of rows of matrix/dataframe containing "x" and "y" columns 2. See the hexbin package 3. Check out the graphics taskview on cran: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Graphics.html (though it may be somewhat date

Re: [R] Display time of PDF plots

2018-09-03 Thread Bert Gunter
1. Plot a random sample of the points (e.g. of rows of matrix/dataframe containing "x" and "y" columns 2. See the hexbin package 3. Check out the graphics taskview on cran: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Graphics.html (though it may be somewhat dated by now) 4. Internet search: e.g. on "d