Large file size when saving ggplot to svg

[Jonas K]

Dear all,

I want to save a multiple panel plot with 9 subplot each with ~ 7000 data points to *.svg using ggsave or via RStudio-Button. However, the svg-files are relatively large ~ 9 MB. Is their any possibility to reduce the size of the file?

I presume the large size is because of the many data points (a lot of them are overlapping) so maybe it is possible to exclude overlapping points from plotting?

The same thing occurs in these example (many data point a lot of the overlapping), here the svg-file is ~13MB

data(diamonds)

A <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=table, y=carat))+
  geom_point()+
  stat_smooth(size=1.5, se=FALSE)
 
ggsave(A, file="A.svg")

Thanks.
 

[romunov]

Hi,

you will have to "manually" remove the ovrrlapping points or use a raster format.

Cheers,
Roman

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[Susanne Oberhauser-Hirschoff]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:58 AM Jonas K <franc...@gmx.de> wrote:

I want to save a multiple panel plot with 9 subplot each with ~ 7000 data points to *.svg using ggsave or via RStudio-Button. However, the svg-files are relatively large ~ 9 MB. Is their any possibility to reduce the size of the file?

have you considered to compress the file with gzip compression?

that might just do it depending on what you use the svg for.

S.