[R] Problem with memory footprint of qq plot generated with lattice

[dhinds@sonic.net]

Witold Eryk Wolski <W.E.Wolski at ncl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Adding f.value=fn as argument to qqmath reduces the size of the image, 
> but neither the axis (absicissae) nor the line added by panel.qqmathline 
> are right.

> Adding f.value=fn as argument to panel.qqmathline and panel.qqmath 
> generates the right graphic, but the size of the image is again 20 MB.

> Any Suggestions?

Neither panel.qqmathline nor panel.qqmath pay any attention to an
f.value argument.

It looks like panel.qqmathline() effectively assumes that f.value is
uniformly distributed.  I guess you could rewrite panel.qqmathline and
prepanel.qqmathline but I don't see a clean solution.

-- Dave