I know how you feel, I came a cross the same problem once, which took sometime to find a solution for.
What you need to do is put the hist into a variable and then plot it, for example: library(lattice) for(i in 8:153){ hist.to.plot <- histogram(~ data[,i] | data[,2], data=data,,ylab="Frequency",xlim=c(1,5),xlab="Score",ylim=c(0,100)),main=paste(colnames(data)[i],sep="") plot(hist.to.plot) } Cheers, Tal ---------------------------------------------- My contact information: Tal Galili E-mail: tal.gal...@gmail.com Phone number: 972-52-7275845 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: http://www.talgalili.com (Web and general, Hebrew) http://www.biostatistics.co.il (Statistics, Hebrew) http://www.r-statistics.com/ (Statistics,R, English) On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:09 AM, ychu066 <ychu...@aucklanduni.ac.nz> wrote: > > tried but still doesnt work ... > > very weird ... > > ychu066 wrote: > > > > here is the codes that i tried..... > > > >> png(paste("hist",i,".png",sep="") > > + library(lattice) > > Error: unexpected symbol in: > > "png(paste("hist",i,".png",sep="") > > library" > >> for(i in 8:153){ > > + histogram(~ data[,i] | data[,2], > > data=data,ylab="Frequency",xlim=c(1,5),xlab="Score",ylim=c(0,100))) > > Error: unexpected ')' in: > > "for(i in 8:153){ > > histogram(~ data[,i] | data[,2], > > data=data,ylab="Frequency",xlim=c(1,5),xlab="Score",ylim=c(0,100)))" > >> } > > Error: unexpected '}' in "}" > >> dev.off() > > Error in dev.off() : cannot shut down device 1 (the null device) > > > > > > ychu066 wrote: > >> > >> still doesnt work ... > >> > >> > >> Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > >>> > >>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:10:52 -0800 (PST) ychu066 <ychu066 > >>> @aucklanduni.ac.nz> wrote: > >>>> And I also want to save each histogram in each separate pdf file using > >>>> the > >>>> following codes ?. > >>>> png("hist.png[i]") > >>>> dev.off() > >>> > >>> Try png(paste("hist",i,".png",sep="") instead. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Karl Ove Hufthammer > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> 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. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Plotting-Histogram-using-histogram%28%29-and-for-loop-and-I-want-to-save-the-histogram-individually-...-HELP-tp26328734p26384489.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.