[R] Loop FOR with histogram() from lattice

[Gerrit Eichner]

Hi, Xochitl,

wrapping the call to histogram() inside your loop in a call to print() 
should solve your problem:

print( histogram( .....))


  Regards --  Gerrit


On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Xochitl CORMON wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm encountering a problem I do not understand on my data:
>
> library (lattice)
>
> Mpool1 <- Table[Table$Subarea %in% c("52E9", "51E9"),]
> Mpool2 <- Table[Table$Subarea %in% c("53F0", "52F0"),]
> Mpool3 <- Table[Table$Subarea %in% c("51F0", "50F0"),]
> Mpool4 <- Table[Table$Subarea %in% c("51F1", "52F1"),]
>
> Mpool <- list(Mpool1, Mpool2, Mpool3, Mpool4)
>
>
> histogram(~ Mpool[[2]]$LngtClas | Mpool[[2]]$SpCode, type = "count", col = 
> "lightgrey", xlab= "LngtClas", main = paste("Length distribution per species 
> for Mpool", "2", sep = "_"))
>
> #### This part works perfectly and I obtain the graph reprensenting Mpool2 
> length class count per species.
> #### Now when I want to automatize this with a "for" loop nothing is plotted.
>
> for (i in c(2)){
> windows()
> histogram(~ Mpool[[i]]$LngtClas | Mpool[[i]]$SpCode, type = "count", col = 
> "lightgrey", xlab= "LngtClas", main = paste("Length distribution per species 
> for Mpool", i, sep = "_"))
> print (i)
> }
>
> ### Running this loop I obtained  windows filled grey (no plot drawn at all) 
> but the print (i) print a "2" as expected. I really dont understand what's 
> wrong with the loop. There is no error message and no notification in R. You 
> can find enclosed my data in txt file.
>
> Thank you very much for any help,
>
> Xochitl C.
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