[R] big ps-files

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Why does it matter?  Surely the time taken to read the file or send it to
the printer is not important, and the actual files compress well for
storage (about a factor of 6 with bzip2 on the example I tried).

Which version of S-PLUS, which has had two completely separate postscript
drivers?  The AT&T S version was written in the 1980s when this did matter
and is somewhat optimized for compact code.

I've just done a quick comparison on the MASS4 ch05 script using Linux.  
S-PLUS 6.1 produces 212Kb, R 1.6.2 produces 596Kb.  These compressed to 48
and 108Kb respectively.

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Helgi Tomasson wrote:

> I have been using R for many years and I am very happy with it.  One
> thing puzzles me.
> Graphic postscript files tend to become quite big, much bigger than
> corresponding splus
> postscript files. Does anybody have a hint  to avoid this?

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