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[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 huan.huang at bnpparibas.com wrote:

> I was using png() last week and also found it was very slow. But if you

If it is `very slow', there is a problem with your hardware.  On my very 
modest laptop

> system.time({png();plot(rnorm(100));dev.off()})
[1] 0.24 1.99 2.39   NA   NA
> system.time({bitmap("foo.png");plot(rnorm(100));dev.off()})
[1] 1.18 4.31 6.42   NA   NA

so I am puzzled by the original claim, too.

> try:
> 
> win.metafile('C:/temp/filename.png', width = 9, height = 10)
> plot(rnorm(100))
> dev.off()
> 
> 
> It will speed up quite a lot. But one thing I don't understand is I

It will not be a png plot, though, so what is the point of that?
You cannot open it in a real Web browser and I can only presume that you 
did not try to do so.

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