Well, yes. Terminology-wise, I guess one could say that it's a trellis plot in the Hmisc package.
But I'd agree that this is nitpicking. -- Bert On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Elliot Joel Bernstein <elliot.bernst...@fdopartners.com> wrote: > Thanks everyone for your replies. I didn't know about the ecdfplot > function, so I'll start using that instead of Ecdf. Why is Ecdf not a > lattice plot? The result certainly looks like other lattice plots, the > arguments are similar to other lattice plots. In fact, internally it seems > to just call the "histogram" function with a different prepanel and panel > function. Is it not considered a lattice plot only because it isn't part of > the lattice package? > > Thanks. > > - Elliot > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Deepayan Sarkar > <deepayan.sar...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Elliot Joel Bernstein >> <elliot.bernst...@fdopartners.com> wrote: >> > Is there an easy way to "thin" a lattice plot? I often create plots from >> > large data sets, and use the "pdf" command to save them to a file, but >> the >> > resulting files can be huge, because every point in the underlying >> dataset >> > is rendered in the plot, even though it isn't possible to see that much >> > detail. >> > >> > For example: >> > >> > require(Hmisc) >> > x <- rnorm(1e6) >> > >> > pdf("test.pdf") >> > Ecdf(x) >> > dev.off() >> >> (This is not a lattice plot, BTW.) >> >> > The resulting pdf files is 31MB. >> >> Hmm, for me it's 192K. Perhaps you have not bothered to update R recently. >> >> > Is there any easy way to get a smaller pdf >> > file without having to manually prune the dataset? >> >> In general, as David noted, you need to do some sort of data >> summarization; great if tools are available to that, otherwise >> yourself. In this case, for example, it seems reasonable to do >> >> Ecdf(quantile(x, probs = ppoints(500, a=1))) >> >> If you don't like to do this yourself, ecdfplot() in latticeExtra will >> allow >> >> library(latticeExtra) >> ecdfplot(x, f.value = ppoints(500, a=1)) >> >> -Deepayan >> > > > > -- > Elliot Joel Bernstein, Ph.D. | Research Associate | FDO Partners, LLC > 134 Mount Auburn Street | Cambridge, MA | 02138 > Phone: (617) 503-4619 | Email: elliot.bernst...@fdopartners.com > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.