On 2013-03-31 04:12, Jacob Fake wrote:
Hey there,
I'm relatively new to R, and am currently working my way through some basic
tutorials. I have a large data set that I've been able to import into the
program. I'm using a script in which x=readdir (the directory). I am trying
to create a histogram of the data in the 17th column, which is response
time data ranging from ~200 to 15000. I have tried to create a histogram by
entering hist(x[,17]). However, the output that I receive has an x-axis
that is wayyy out with small values like 0e+00 up to 6e+05. All the data is
clustered together in one bar at 0e+00 and has a frequency of 15000 on the
y-axis. What am I doing wrong? How can I change the output so that I can
assess the shape of the distribution?
I'm confused: is 'x' a data.frame or a directory? What exactly does
x[, 17] mean here?
If x is a data.frame, then the first thing to check is
range(x[, 17])
It's also _always_ a good idea to check str(x) before you do anything
further with x.
Peter Ehlers
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