One problem here is pretty() which should accept non-finite values as it does in S. It will in 2.0.0.
It is easiest to change !is.na to is.finite, which is what some plot() methods use. On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Elizabeth Purdom > Version: 1.9.1 > OS: Windows > Submission from: (NULL) (171.64.102.192) > > > hist() fails if encounters 'Inf' value, rather than giving warning and removing. > Other graphics, like plot(), don't have this problem. It's actually rather > confusing if you are taking the log of data real valued data with a few > non-positive numbers. hist() works fine in this situation unless you happen to > have an exact 0, as oppose to just negative numbers. Then log(0)=Inf while > log(-1)=NA and NA values are removed by the program while Inf kills it. At least > a better error message would be good, because as it is, it looks like the > program can't handle NAs. > > > x<-seq(-5,100,by=1) > ##Gives error, no output > > hist(log(x)) > Error in pretty(range(x), n = breaks, min.n = 1) : > NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 1) > In addition: Warning message: > NaNs produced in: log(x) > ##Gives log() warning > > hist(log(x)[!is.infinite(log(x))]) > Warning messages: > 1: NaNs produced in: log(x) > 2: NaNs produced in: log(x) > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
