On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:36 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote:

> 
> On 20-02-2013, at 12:58, Eik Vettorazzi <e.vettora...@uke.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ian,
>> besides encouraging alternative pdf viewers, you just could thin out
>> your interpolation grid, such as
>> b = seq(-10, 10, 0.02) #instead of 0.0002
>> and everything goes fine even with AcroRead XI.
>> 
> 
> When I received the original mail this morning Mail.app on OS X 10.8.2 locked 
> up completely when I tried to access the mail.
> Both Preview and QuickLook became totally unresponsive.
> 
> With the above change  a(0.02 instead of 0.0002) all goes smoothly now.

It is true that Preview.app took an inordinately long time to display on my 
system (MacOS 10.6.8, Preview 5.0.3, Mail 4.6), but going out to refill my 
coffee cup did let it succeed. I didn't try with QuickLook.


-- 
David.
> Berend
> 
> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Am 20.02.2013 01:09, schrieb Ian Renner:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to save a plot as a PDF with different line types. In the 
>>> example below, R displays the plot correctly with 2 curves in solid lines, 
>>> 2 curves in dashed lines and 1 curve as a dotted line. However, when I save 
>>> the image as PDF (as attached), the dashed lines become solid. This also 
>>> happens if I use the pdf command directly (by removing the # symbols).
>>> 
>>> Is there any way around this? Saving the image as a JPEG or PNG file works 
>>> fine but the image quality is not desirable.
>>> 
>>> b.hat = 6
>>> a.1 = -12
>>> a.2 = 0
>>> a.3 = 200
>>> 
>>> b = seq(-10, 10, 0.0002)
>>> l = a.1*(b - b.hat)^2 + a.2*(b - b.hat) + a.3
>>> 
>>> lambda = 20
>>> 
>>> p = -lambda*abs(b)
>>> 
>>> pen.like = l + p
>>> 
>>> y.min = 3*min(p)
>>> y.max = max(c(l, p, pen.like))
>>> 
>>> #pdf(file = "TestPlot.pdf", 6, 6)
>>> #{
>>> plot(b, l, type = "l", ylim = c(y.min, y.max), lwd = 2, xlab = 
>>> expression(beta), ylab = "", col = "green", yaxt = "n", xaxt = "n")
>>> points(b, p, type = "l", lty = "dotted", lwd = 2, col = "red")
>>> points(b, pen.like, type = "l", lwd = 2, lty = "dashed", col = "green")
>>> 
>>> axis(1, at = c(0))
>>> axis(2, at = c(0))
>>> 
>>> lambda.hat = which.max(pen.like)
>>> lambda.glm = which(b == b.hat)
>>> 
>>> points(b[lambda.glm], l[lambda.glm], pch = 16, cex = 1.5)
>>> points(b[lambda.hat], l[lambda.hat], pch = 17, cex = 1.5)
>>> 
>>> b.hat = -3
>>> a.1 = -1.5
>>> a.2 = 0
>>> a.3 = 120
>>> 
>>> l = a.1*(b - b.hat)^2 + a.2*(b - b.hat) + a.3
>>> 
>>> pen.like = l + p
>>> 
>>> points(b, l, type = "l", lwd = 2, col = "blue")
>>> points(b, pen.like, type = "l", lwd = 2, lty = "dashed", col = "blue")
>>> 
>>> lambda.hat = which.max(pen.like)
>>> lambda.glm = which(b == b.hat)
>>> 
>>> points(b[lambda.glm], l[lambda.glm], pch = 16, cex = 1.5)
>>> points(b[lambda.hat], l[lambda.hat], pch = 17, cex = 1.5)
>>> 
>>> abline(h = 0)
>>> abline(v = 0)
>>> 
>>> #}
>>> 
>>> #dev.off()
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Ian
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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