To open a graphics device, you usually use a function like png() or eps() then do your plotting then dev.off() to close it when you're done.
Sounds like you need something like hist(x, breaks = 100, freq = TRUE) Hope that helps, Michael On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Nick Gayeski <n...@wildfishconservancy.org> wrote: > I have what is probably a simple problem. I have a data file from an MCMC > Bayes estimation problem that is a vector of 500,000 numeric values (just > one variable) ranging from 100,000 to 700,000. I need to display the > histogram of this data in a high quality graphic for a figure in a journal > publication. I want 100 bins so as to display a reasonable complete and > smooth histogram, and I need the Y-axis to display the bin proportions. > > I'm new to all of the graphics capabilities of R. > > Can anyone provide me with the command I need to issue to the call to hist > to get the output that I desire? > > I assume that once I have the desired histogram I will be able to save it > in a format like .eps that will permit it to be reproduced in high > resolution. But any suggestions for this task would also be appreciated. > > Regards, > > Nick > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.