[R] Is ther a possibility to display the log(frequency) instead of the frequency in the hist plot?

[ben@zoo.ufl.edu]

  The only potential problem with this solution is that bins with zero
counts and bins with 1 count will both be treated as zeros.

  Consider:

my.data <- c(1.5,1.5,2.5,4.5,5.5,5.5)
my.hist.counts <- hist(my.data, plot=F, breaks=0:6)$counts

etc.

  This is an unlikely event with the default "breaks" settings,
though.  (On the other hand, the fact that you have bins with zero counts
says that you might well have bins with only 1 count.)

  Ben

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Alexander A. Morgan wrote:

> I imagine that the point of logging the histogram count axis is just for
> displaying purposes, and your suggestion would alter the scale.  I find it
> easier to just leave the 0 counts as zero.
>
> hist(my.data, plot=F)$counts -> my.hist.counts;
> my.hist.counts[my.hist.counts != 0] <-
>                       log(my.hist.counts[my.hist.counts!= 0]);
> plot(my.hist.counts, type="hist");
>
>
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> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Peter Kleiweg wrote:
>
> > Witold Eryk Wolski skriver...
> >
> > > Some questions still remain to me.
> > > 1. How take an log if one of the my.hist$counts equals 0?
> >
> > log(my.hist$counts + 1)
> >
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