Ana Florencia Silbering <anafs <at> zedat.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> I am trying to create a histogram containing several data sets (I would > like to see how the dependent variable is distributed for the different > groups). This should be possible using the function multhist contained > in the plotrix package. (I am using R 2.2.1, in windows XP). > I have an array with > > > dim(risetime) > [1] 5 8 4 4 79 > > And I would like to plot subsets of this array with multhist. As far as > I could understand multhist can only use a list of numerical vectors, > and that is why it can not process something like: > > multhist(list(risetime[,,,1,],risetime[,,,2,],risetime[,,,3,], > risetime[,,,4,],breaks="FD") > > On the other hand, if I try: > multhist(risetime[,,,1,],risetime[,,,2,], > breaks="FD",xlab="rise time (sec)",ylab="counts", > xlim=c(0,8)) I think you need multhist(list(risetime[,,,1,],risetime[,,,2,])) or for more clarity L <- list(risetime[,,,1,],risetime[,,,2,]) multhist(L) (try it that way first and then put in all the extra arguments) good luck Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
