[R] heavy graphs

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 15/04/2008 5:22 PM, Georg Ehret wrote:
> Dear R community,        I am creating large graphs with hundreds of
> thousands of datapoints. My usual way for output was pdf, but now I am
> getting file sizes of >30Mb that do not open well (or at all) in Adobe. Is
> there a way to reduce the resolution or get rid of overlaying datapoints?
> Any other idea is also warmly welcome!

A hexbin plot might be an alternative.  This is implemented in the 
hexbin package on Bioconductor.

Duncan Murdoch