The amazing tabplot package creates the tableplot feature for visualizing huge chunks of data. This is a great example of creative data visualization that is resource lite and extremely fast in a first look at the data. (note- The tabplot package is being used and table plot function is being used . The TABLEPLOT package is different and is NOT being used here).
library(ggplot2)
data(diamonds)
library(tabplot)
tableplot(diamonds)
system.time(tableplot(diamonds))
visualizing a 50000 row by 10 variable dataset in 0.7 s is fast !!
click on screenshot to see it
and some say R is slow 
Note I used a free Windows Amazon EC2 Instance for it-
See screenshot for hardware configuration
the best thing is there is a handy GTK GUI for this package. You can check it out at
Time on Amazon micro instance Windows was
user system elapsed
0.66 0.11 0.89
Configuration of Windows Micro Instance is 615 mb RAM,Intel Xeon , 64 bit OS Windows Server- I updated the above
Thanks!
That is pretty fast!
What is the system config that this is being run on?
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