From maiagx at gmail.com  Tue Dec  1 05:48:33 2009
From: maiagx at gmail.com (Charlotte Maia)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:48:33 +1300
Subject: [Rd] raster support in graphics devices
Message-ID: <b7bfe54e0911302048y4ccebeb6n8f87584cb9b91ced@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I consider raster graphics highly problematic in statistics.
People get caught up in the idea of creating pretty pictures, rather
than effectively visualising information.

Plus a lot of people (who should know better) needlessly put raster
images inside reports and articles (even books), which either makes
the files large (and very difficult to view), or creates blurry
images, or both.

It's always good to have more functionality.
However, I certainly hope that most of the R community stick to vector
graphics (with conservative colour use), unless it is absolutely
necessary to do otherwise (and the only example I can think of, is
modelling images themselves).

On a side issue, I have found that R plots tend to be getting slower
over the years.
I think cairo was a bad move, however that's just my opinion...


regards
-- 
Charlotte Maia
http://sites.google.com/site/maiagx/home



[Rd] raster support in graphics devices
Charlotte Maia