I guess my memory was off slightly. Densities are only plotted with freq=TRUE. Still there the ever present conundrum that 0 counts cannot be sensibly represented.
Why not: hist( log(x), …) #? In situations where it might make sense. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 6, 2023, at 9:01 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > hist() is designed so that the total area sums to 1. You should build you > desired behavior using a barchart. > > — > David > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 5, 2023, at 11:50 PM, Ott Toomet <otoo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Sorry if this topic has been discussed earlier. >> >> Currently, hist(..., log="y") fails with >> >>> hist(rexp(1000, 1), log="y") >> Warning messages: >> 1: In plot.window(xlim, ylim, "", ...) : >> nonfinite axis=2 limits [GScale(-inf,2.59218,..); log=TRUE] -- corrected >> now >> 2: In title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab, ...) : >> "log" is not a graphical parameter >> 3: In axis(1, ...) : "log" is not a graphical parameter >> 4: In axis(2, at = yt, ...) : "log" is not a graphical parameter >> >> The same applies for log="x" >> >>> hist(rexp(1000, 1), log="x") >> Warning messages: >> 1: In plot.window(xlim, ylim, "", ...) : >> nonfinite axis=1 limits [GScale(-inf,0.954243,..); log=TRUE] -- corrected >> now >> 2: In title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab, ...) : >> "log" is not a graphical parameter >> 3: In axis(1, ...) : "log" is not a graphical parameter >> 4: In axis(2, at = yt, ...) : "log" is not a graphical parameter >> >> This applies for the current svn version of R, and also a few recent >> published versions. This is unfortunate for two reasons: >> >> * the error message is not quite correct--"log" is a graphical parameter, >> but "hist" does not support it. >> * for various kinds of data it is worthwhile to make histograms in log >> scale. "hist" is a very nice and convenient function and support for log >> scale would be handy here. >> >> I also played a little with the code, and it seems to be very easy to >> implement. I am happy to make a patch if the team thinks it is worth >> pursuing. >> >> Cheers, >> Ott >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
