Re: [R] Log-scale in histogramm

2006-10-14 Thread Michael Toews
Log y-axis on histograms are conceptually wrong, but aren't a bad idea either. It is conceptually safer to show this using density. Consider an exponential distribution, which could look better with a log y-axis: x - rexp(1,.1) xd - density(x,from=0) par(mfrow=c(2,1)) plot(xd)

[R] Log-scale in histogramm

2006-10-13 Thread David Graf
Hello My data looks ugly in a normal histogramm. How can I create a histogramm with a Y-axis in log-scale? Thanks for your help! David Graf -- __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the

Re: [R] Log-scale in histogramm

2006-10-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 13:33 +0200, David Graf wrote: Hello My data looks ugly in a normal histogramm. How can I create a histogramm with a Y-axis in log-scale? Thanks for your help! David Graf I'm not sure that you want to use a log scale here, but may be better served by log

Re: [R] Log-scale in histogramm

2006-10-13 Thread David Scott
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Marc Schwartz wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 13:33 +0200, David Graf wrote: Hello My data looks ugly in a normal histogramm. How can I create a histogramm with a Y-axis in log-scale? Thanks for your help! David Graf There is a log-histogram (called log.hist) in my