I change the values by multiple 100 (from fraction to percentage) and then use the same code draw the hist. Now it works fine. The y axis labeled between 0 and 0.05.
Why using fraction (value between 0 and 1) it does not work? Charles charles78 wrote: > > I have been trying to draw histogram for my manscript and found some > strange things that I could not figure out why. > > Using the same code listed below I have successfully draw histograms for a > few figures with fraction labeled on Y axis less than 1 (acturally between > 0 to 0.1). But one dataset gives the Y axis label 0 to 5 as fraction. > This is not true, as fraction are less than 1, although the value > distribution on the figure seems to me is right. > > The only difference between the first few datasets and last dataset is: > > All values for the first few data sets > 1. > > The values for the last data sets between 0 and <1. > > Any idea why this happens. > > Your help is highly appreciated. > > Charles > > =================================================== > postscript("Figure.eps", paper="letter", horizontal=FALSE) > par(mfrow=c(3,3)) > par(omi=c(2,0.2,1.8,0.2), mai=c(0.4, 0.4, 0.5, 0.1) ) > > my.input <- read.table("input.data", header=FALSE, sep="\t") > my.input.exp <- read.table("exp.data", header=FALSE, sep="\t") > > hist(my.input.exp[,2], breaks=40,freq = FALSE,xlab="", border = "grey30", > ylab="", main="") > hist(my.input[,2], breaks=40,freq = FALSE,xlab="", ylab="", main="", > border = "red",add =TRUE) > mtext("Fraction", side=2, line=2, cex=0.7) > box() > ====================================================== > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-needed%3A-Fraction-for-Histogram-%3E-1-----tp24150345p24166484.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.