A few ideas: Make a log-scale y-axis like: hist(my.data,...,log="y")
argument yaxp can help make the ticks look pretty...see ?par. Or use various functions from the package `plotirx': axis.break and gap.barplot might be helpful. For those functions, you'll probably need to get your frequencies from the histogram, something like: my.freq <- hist(my.data,...,plot=FALSE)$counts you may also need to play with the x-axis tick labels to actually denote the correct bin for your frequencies. Good luck, hope that helps-- Andy On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Aarne Hovi <aarne.h...@helsinki.fi> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a histogram with R. The problem is that the frequency > is high for a couple of x-axis categories (e.g. 1500) and low for most of > the x-axis categories (e.g. 50) > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n2237476/LK3_hist.jpg . When I create > the > histogram, it is not very informative, because only the high frequencies > can > be seen clearly. Is there any way I could cut the y-axis from the middle so > that the y-axis values ranged for example from 0 to 300, and then again > from > 900 to 1500? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Y-axis-range-in-histograms-tp2237476p2237476.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.
