Plotting the data with scrollable x (time/horizontal) axis on Linux

Question

I want to plot data where x axis is long. If I plot the whole x axis then the plot shrinks and it is almost unreadable. I\'ve found this answer on SO which points to followi

Answer 1

In R this answer could help you. It will save the plot as a separate png, but you can change the format type with a different command. The relevant code from that answer is reproduced:

 png("wide.png", width = 1e5, height = 500)
 plot((sin(1:10000/100)+rnorm(10000)/5),type='l')
 dev.off()
 #bmp("wide.bmp", width = 1e5, height = 500)
 #plot((sin(1:10000/100)+rnorm(10000)/5),type='l')
 #dev.off()
 #note that the png has a size of 396 KB, while the bmp has 48,830 KB.