> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Abhishek Pratap > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:12 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Plotting 15 million points > > Hi All > > I have a vector of about 15 million numbers which I would like to > plot. The goal is the see the distribution. I tired the usual steps. > > 1. Histogram : never gets complete my window freezes w/out log base 10 > 2. Density : I first calculated the kernel density and then plotted > it which worked. > > It would be nice to superimpose histogram with density but as of now I > am not able to get this data as a histogram. I tried ggplot2 which > also hangs. > > Any efficient methods to play with > 10 million numbers in a vector. > > Thanks, > -Abhi >
You need to show us what you did. Generating 15 million random normals and plotting a histogram worked just fine on my desktop in a matter of ~6 seconds. > x <- rnorm(15e6) > hist(x) Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 ______________________________________________ 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.
