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
