[R] density plot not smooth

[William Dunlap]

Fix Ace wrote
    What is the default "n"?

512:
   > length(density(rnorm(10^6))$x)
   [1] 512
   > args(density.default)
   function (x, bw = "nrd0", adjust = 1, kernel = c("gaussian",
       "epanechnikov", "rectangular", "triangular", "biweight",
       "cosine", "optcosine"), weights = NULL, window = kernel,
       width, give.Rkern = FALSE, n = 512, from, to, cut = 3, na.rm =
FALSE,
       ...)
   NULL
   > ?density # or ?density.default, should also tell you about its meaning


Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Fix Ace <acefix at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the email.
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> What is the default "n"?
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> Thanks!
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>   On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:06 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com>
> wrote:
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> Increasing the value of 'n' given to density will give an estimate at more
> points so it will look smoother.  Try n=2^18.
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> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
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> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Fix Ace <acefix at rocketmail.com> wrote:
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>  I have a dataset with 6187 elements, ranged from 3 to 104028. When I
> tried to examine only small range of data, I found that the plot was not
> smooth (as shown below):
> plot(density(test$V2), xlim=c(0,1000))
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>  Is there away to make it smoother?
> Thanks a lot!!
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