[R] log y 'axis' of histogram

[David Scott]

On 30/08/2010 1:58 p.m., Derek M Jones wrote:
> All,
>
> I have been trying to get calls to hist(...) to be plotted
> with the y-axis having a log scale.
>
> I have tried: par(ylog=TRUE)
>
> I have also looked at the histogram package.
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>

You appear to be looking for a log-histogram function.

There is one (logHist) in my package DistributionUtils on CRAN. You 
don't need the rest of the package to use it. You could just extract 
that particular function.

David Scott

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