Efficiently plotting hundreds of millions of points in R

Question

Is plot() the most efficient way to plot 100 million or so data points in R? I\'d like to plot a bunch of these Clifford Attractors. Here\'s an example of one I\'ve

Answer 1

I am currently exploring datashader (http://www.datashader.org). If you are willing to work with python, this could be an elegant solution to the problem.