Thanks, Dennis, for your suggestions. I was thinking about the package 'sqldf', but I guess that I must have a data frame to plot a histogram.
Paul On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Dennis Murphy <djmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
