[R] density plot not smooth

[S Ellison]

>  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))
> 
> 
>  Is there away to make it smoother?

For small ranges, use 'from' and 'to' in density() to restrict the range over which the density is calculated rather than increasing the number of points.

for example

plot(density(test$V2, from=0, to=1000))

This should produce a 512-point density plot for the region of interest only - though you may not find it very interesting for such a small range.... 

S Ellison


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