[R] behaviour of plot(...,type="l")

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:49:54 +0200
> From: Adrian Trapletti <adrian at olsen.ch>
> 
> plot(rnorm(100000),type="l")
> 
> plots only about 7e4 lines while the same without type="l" works fine.
> Is this a feature or a bug or is this configurable?

{on SunOS 5.5.1)

We've seen this before (I thought there was a bug report on R-bugs,
but could not locate it quickly).

Assuming this is on an X11 device, it's a limitation of the X server.
Many (including Solaris ones) can only handle 64K line segments.

I am sure you don't really want a plot of 10^5 random numbers, and
also that no plot of 10^5 points is going to be intelligible unless there
is a lot of redundancy.

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