[R] tip: large plots

[MacQueen, Don]

And even more for the heck of it... this kind of thing is also
device-dependent.

(this is *not* a controlled test; some variation could be due to other
processes running on the machine)

-Don

> x11(type='Xlib')
> system.time(plot(runif(1e6),runif(1e6)))
   user  system elapsed
  0.712   0.165   2.129

> dev.off()
null device 
          1 

> x11(type='cairo')
> system.time(plot(runif(1e6),runif(1e6)))
   user  system elapsed
 48.444   0.169  49.051

> dev.off()
null device 
          1 

> quartz()
> system.time(plot(runif(1e6),runif(1e6)))
   user  system elapsed
 36.358   0.097  36.485

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] rmacq_1.1-3



-- 
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 11/19/11 3:17 PM, "Carl Witthoft" <carl at witthoft.com> wrote:

>Another few data points, just for the heck of it.  This is on a 2.66GHz
>Intel Core Duo iMac.
>
>
>Rgames> system.time(plot(runif(1e6),runif(1e6)))
>    user  system elapsed
>  34.405   0.079  34.432
>Rgames> system.time(plot(runif(1e6),runif(1e6),pch='.'))
>    user  system elapsed
>  12.602   0.032  12.596
>
>Rgames> system.time(print(xyplot(runif(1e6)~runif(1e6))))
>    user  system elapsed
>  36.651   0.837  37.371
>
>Rgames> system.time(print(xyplot(runif(1e6)~runif(1e6),pch='.')))
>    user  system elapsed
>  16.866   0.777  17.578
>
>Rgames> system.time(scatterplot3d(runif(1e6),runif(1e6),rep(1,1e6)))
>    user  system elapsed
>  36.081   0.959  36.932
>Rgames> 
>system.time(scatterplot3d(runif(1e6),runif(1e6),rep(1,1e6),cex.symbols='.'
>))
>    user  system elapsed
>  18.834   0.864  19.629
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