On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help