[Rd] [R] large files produced from image plots?

[Paul Murrell]

Hi

[shifted this to r-devel]

I can't reproduce this yet on my systems, but I have heard of at least 
one other example of a raster-related crash (on a 64-bit system I think).

Baptiste: I would love to see that broken PDF if you still have it.

Paul

On 9/09/2010 8:00 a.m., baptiste auguie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get the same crash with x11() with sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [8] base
>
> However it works fine with quartz(). Have you tried other devices?
> pdf() doesn't crash R for me, but the output is incorrect. png() is OK
> but defeats the purpose here.
>
> rasterImage is quite a recent addition, it would probably be
> appreciated to report any such odd behavior to R-devel. Interestingly
> (or not), the x11() test does not crash for me using grid.raster
> instead of rasterImage.
>
> Best,
>
> baptiste
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 8 September 2010 21:47, Stephen T.<obsessively at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi Baptiste,
>> Thanks for your suggestion. I have to look into this further, but anything I
>> try with rasterImage() gives me this type of error (below is from running
>> the example in the help file). This is with R 2.11.1 on OS X 10.5 -
>>   *** caught bus error ***
>> address 0x24, cause 'non-existent physical address'
>> Traceback:
>>   1: rasterImage(image, 100, 300, 150, 350, interpolate = FALSE)
>> Possible actions:
>> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
>> 2: normal R exit
>> 3: exit R without saving workspace
>> 4: exit R saving workspace
>> This is not an obvious error, is it?
>> Thanks,
>> Stephen
>>> Subject: Re: [R] large files produced from image plots?
>>> From: baptiste.auguie at googlemail.com
>>> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 19:41:46 +0200
>>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>>> To: obsessively at hotmail.com
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Have you tried the recent rasterImage() function?
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> baptiste
>>>
>>> On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Stephen T. wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi list,
>>>> I wonder if anyone has thoughts on making image plots in R [using
>>>> image() or image.plot(), or filled.contour()]- I've made quite a bit now,
>>>> but they seem quite large in size when exported to pdf file format (even
>>>> after compressing with pdftk or ghostscript, which I regularly do). I know
>>>> that for "images", raster graphics output (png, tiff) may be the way to go,
>>>> but often the ones I make are multi-panel plots with other graphics on them,
>>>> and are usually included in a LaTeX document (PDFLaTeX does accept png) and
>>>> require stretching/shrinking (and/or possibly editing with Adobe
>>>> Illustrator). I have had some luck exporting image plots from Matlab (to
>>>> postscript or pdf) before in the sense that the files seem smaller and less
>>>> pixelated. Is this a difference in the way image() plots are produced, or
>>>> with the way the image is written to the pdf() device (if anyone is familiar
>>>> with other image-exporting programs...)? The other day I had a 13MB dataset,
>>>> and probably plotted 3/4 of it!
>>>> using image() and the compressed pdf output was about 8 MB (it contained
>>>> other stuff but was an addition of a few KB). I tried filled.contour(), as I
>>>> understand that it colors polygons to fill contours instead of coloring
>>>> rectangles at each pixel - and it has saved me before - but this time the
>>>> contours may have been too sharp as as its compressed pdf came out to be 62
>>>> MB... (ouch!). I have not tested this data set with other software programs
>>>> so it may just have been a difficult data set.
>>>> Is there a good solution to this (or is it simply not to use a
>>>> vector-graphics format in these instances), and just for my curiosity, are
>>>> you aware of any things that other software (data analysis) programs do uder
>>>> the hood to make their exported images smaller/smoother?
>>>> Thanks much!
>>>> Stephen
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