> I have counts ranging over 4-6 orders of magnitude with peaks > occurring at various 'magic' values. Using a log scale for the > y-axis enables the smaller peaks, which would otherwise > be almost invisible bumps along the x-axis, to be seen
That doesn't justify the use of a _histogram_ - and regardless of what distributional display you use, logging the counts imposes some pretty heavy restrictions on the shape of the distribution (e.g. that it must not drop to zero). It may be useful for your purposes, but that doesn't necessarily make it a meaningful graphic. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
