[R] log-scale density plots (was histogram)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Luca De Benedictis wrote:

> Dear friends,
> I have been following the help-list in the next two months and I would
> like to tell how much I admire the effort of such a great teem of R
> expert. I am learning a lot. Thank you.
>
> My problem is the following. I work with a fairly large data set (700
> productive sectors, 70 countries, 25 years) and I am applying kernel
> density (using MASS or sm) to sectoral exports which have markedly
> skewed distributions, so I do the analysis on a log scale.
> What I would like when I plot histograms or densities is to have on the
> horizontal axis not the value y which is equal to log(x) but the
> expression log(x) itself (i.e. log(0.3), log(1), log(34),...)
>
> I have played a little bit with names.arg :
> plot(density(log(x[,3]),width=0.4, names.arg="log(x)")
>
> but I was not very successful. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

How about

x <- rlnorm(700)
den <- density(log(x))
den$x <- exp(den$x)
plot(den, log="x", title="something meaningful")

?

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