Re: [R] Plotting Example Fail

2015-11-24 Thread Bert Gunter
But please spend some time with an R tutorial or two (An Intro to R ships with R; there are many more on the Web) before you post further here. Many such elementary confusions and time wasted -- both yours and ours -- will be avoided if you do so. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "Data is not informati

Re: [R] Plotting Example Fail

2015-11-24 Thread Timothy D. Legg
Thank you for your suggestions. I am quite grateful to understand that plotting is reliable and consistent in R. I had believed that this was based on a built-in dataset within the R programming language, just as the New Zealand volcano is. I look forward to further participation in R as I conti

Re: [R] Plotting Example Fail

2015-11-24 Thread Boris Steipe
... or read about set.seed() and use it. B. On Nov 24, 2015, at 2:58 PM, William Dunlap wrote: > rpois(100, 5) gives a different set of random numbers each time it is > called, so if you want repeatable results compute it once and use its > value in the calls to plot. E.g., > r <- rpois(100

Re: [R] Plotting Example Fail

2015-11-24 Thread William Dunlap
rpois(100, 5) gives a different set of random numbers each time it is called, so if you want repeatable results compute it once and use its value in the calls to plot. E.g., r <- rpois(100, 5) plot(table(r), type="h", col="red", lwd=10, main="hello") Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.

[R] Plotting Example Fail

2015-11-24 Thread Timothy D. Legg
Hello, I am quite new to R and have high expectations for my future with it. R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing" Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) I have stepped back to an earlier tutorial and found an odd inconsis