[R] Plotting continuous line types w/large datasets

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

liston at cc.gatech.edu (Richard Liston) writes:

> Hi, R-Folks,
> 
> I have 3 large datasets that I combined in a single plot with
> 
> plot(ecdf(x1...),...)
> plot(ecdf(x2...),add=TRUE,...)
> plot(ecdf(x3...),add=TRUE,...)
> 
> The datasets are very similar, so it is difficult to get visual
> separation among them. I tried many different line types without
> success -- the lines all came out solid. Checking further, plot.ecdf()
> calls plot.stepfun(), which calls segments() between each pair of
> points to plot. Since the points are so close together the lty
> parameter becomes meaningless, which is why the lines come out solid.
> I modified plot.stepfun() to call lines() for the whole vector of
> points, but this didn't seem to help. So my question is: is there a
> call I can make to plot a large dataset where the specified line type
> gets "continued" through all the points? Or perhaps someone can suggest
> a workaround.

Changing the colour might work better.

All the step function plotting seems afflicted by this. Compare

  plot(sort(x),(1:10000)/10000, type="s", lty="dashed")
  plot(sort(x),(1:10000)/10000, type="l", lty="dashed")

The latter might lead to a passable workaround.

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