Hi: I would suggest that you avoid the histogram and make a density plot instead. It would be more informative and probably require a lot less time and ink. If you're married to the histogram concept, try taking a sample of about 10000 and get a histogram of that instead. The result shouldn't be much different from that of the entire sample - to test out this hypothesis, take several random samples of size 10000 and compare the histograms. If they're not much different in shape, it's likely that the full sample is close to the same. If there are noticeable differences, try 50000 or 100000 instead (rinse and repeat).
HTH, Dennis On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a massive dataset from which I would like to draw a histogram. > Any ideas on how to accomplish this? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
