Plotting of very large data sets in R

Question

How can I plot a very large data set in R?

I\'d like to use a boxplot, or violin plot, or similar. All the data cannot be fit in memory. Can I incrementally read in and

Answer 1

You should also look at the RSQLite, SQLiteDF, RODBC, and biglm packages. For large datasets is can be useful to store the data in a database and pull only pieces into R. The databases can also do sorting for you and then computing quantiles on sorted data is much simpler (then just use the quantiles to do the plots).

There is also the hexbin package (bioconductor) for doing scatterplot equivalents with very large datasets (probably still want to use a sample of the data, but works with a large sample).