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

All you need for a boxplot are the quantiles, the "whisker" extremes, and the outliers (if shown), which is all easily precomputed. Take a look at the boxplot.stats function.