[R] Point size problem

Marcin Kozak nyggus at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 14:49:00 CEST 2008


Sorry. I'm using Windows XP and R 2.7.0, and the same problem occurred
for various graphics devices (windows, pdf, jpeg).

Marcin

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Marcin Kozak wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a simple question and couldn't find any post on this. When
>> plotting simple scatterplots (other plots as well), e.g.,
>>
>> x<-rnorm(30, 10, 1)
>> y<-rnorm(30, 10, 1)
>> plot(x, y, pch = 15, cex = 1),
>>
>> the points, even those close to each other, may have visibly different
>> sizes. Do you know what's going on with that?
>
> No, because you haven't followed the posting guide and told us your OS, R
> version and what graphics device this is.
>
> This may be an artefact of rasterization in the device, since you are
> plotting squares with numeric (not integer) coordinates, and these need to
> be mapped to pixels on a screen device.  So for example the interval (3.7,
> 6.0) might light up 3 pixels, and (3.4, 5.7) might light up 4.
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Marcin
>>
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>>
>
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