[R] white lines in large plot

Don MacQueen macq at llnl.gov
Sun Mar 9 03:20:52 CET 2008


I have seen this sort of appearance on screen when plotting very 
dense grids. When I use a different device, such as pdf(), no such 
artifacts appear. This supports Uwe's suggestion.

-Don


At 7:38 PM +0100 3/8/08, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>Paul Winward wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I have a plot with about 2 million points.  It should be a fairly dense
>>  plot over the reals, but I'm seeing many narrow, white vertical lines
>>  uniformly spread in my plot where nothing was plotted.   I'm using a
>>  period as the plot character.  I've played around with the cex
>>  parameter, but I can't eliminate the white lines without making the plot
>>  look too blocky.
>
>
>I guess this is just some artefact of your screens resolution.
>
>>  I'm using R version 2.4.1.
>
>R-2.6.2 is recent!
>
>Uwe Ligges
>
>
>>  Thanks for any help,
>>  Paul
>>
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