Re: [R] shrink a dataframe for plotting

2007-11-21 Thread jim holtman
Try 'hexbin' for plotting this many points. On Nov 21, 2007 5:05 AM, Alexy Khrabrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get tables with millions of rows. For plotting to a screen-size > jpg, obviously just about 1000 points are enough. Instead of feeding > plot() the original millions of rows, I'd ra

Re: [R] shrink a dataframe for plotting

2007-11-21 Thread Alex Brown
For me the largest challenge with such data sets is the extra time that it takes to develop the appropriate graph, given the time it takes to plot each prototype. Once I have got the graph scale decorations etc correct then the time for the final plot is almost irrelevant. For this reason

Re: [R] shrink a dataframe for plotting

2007-11-21 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
On Nov 21, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Jombart wrote: > Alexy Khrabrov wrote: > >> I get tables with millions of rows. For plotting to a screen-size >> jpg, obviously just about 1000 points are enough. Instead of feeding >> plot() the original millions of rows, I'd rather shrink the original >> d

Re: [R] shrink a dataframe for plotting

2007-11-21 Thread Thibaut Jombart
Alexy Khrabrov wrote: >I get tables with millions of rows. For plotting to a screen-size >jpg, obviously just about 1000 points are enough. Instead of feeding >plot() the original millions of rows, I'd rather shrink the original >dataframe, using some kind of the following interpolation: >