[R] Weird densityplot behaviour

[Deepayan Sarkar]

--- Geoff Wright <geoffwright at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> When I do: 
> rx<-rnorm(500)
> densityplot(rx)
> 
> I get something that looks reasonable.
> 
> However, when I do:
> rx<-rnorm(5)
> densityplot(rx)
> 
> I get strange results sometimes...
> For example, if rx = c(1,1,1,1,2), then the resulting plot shows marginal 
> densities greater than 1.  

And why exactly is that strange ? For instance, try calculating the 
normal(0, .3^2) density at 0 [ dnorm(0, mean = 0, sd = .3) ]. 

> I must be overlooking something.
> 
> Thanks.
> geoff
> 
>
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