On 29-May-03 Stephen Eglen wrote: > t <- seq(from=0, to=4*pi, length=200000) > y <- sin(t) > postscript(file="o.ps") > plot(t, y, type="l") > dev.off() > > If I view the postscript file o.ps in "gv", it takes many seconds > before eventually the axes appear, but then only one vertical line is > drawn within the plot area -- there is no sine curve. (this is on a > fast dual processor linux machine with 2Gb RAM.) This is clearly a > postscript problem, rather than a R problem, since reducing the length > of t down to something like 2000 solves the problem. By looking at > the file o.ps it looks like the line is drawn by one "rlineto" call > per point, followed eventually by a "stroke" after the last point. > I'm guessing that the postscript interpreter simply cannot remember so > many points in the path before it gets to the stroke.
Absolutely no problem here: beautiful sine curve, axes and all (gv-3.5.8 of June 1997, R-1.6.2, medium-speed 733MHz single processor with 512MB RAM running Linux; 15 seconds to draw the curve; 'gs' 5.5 took about 5 secs). At a guess your 'gv' is not coping. It's not a PS problem as such. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 29-May-03 Time: 19:00:38 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help