Thanks for the prompt reply. I think I have an idea on how to do what I want now.
Best regards, Hang On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 14 February 2011 at 17:40, Hang PHAN wrote: > | Hi, > | I have a very large data file(GB) from which I only want to extract one > | column to draw histogram. This would be done several times, so I would > like > | to ask if there is anyway to plot this using R from the linux command > line, > | something look like this > | > | cut -f1 xxx.txt |RplotHist .... > > Have a look at littler which was written with these uses in mind: > > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html > > It includes a few examples which should get you going. Also, in > non-interactive mode, your plot device will have to a file. > > Hope this helps, Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
