[R] barplot as histogram

[Jesse Brown]

Hello:

I'm dealing with an issue currently that I'm not sure the best way to 
approach. I've got a very large (10G+) dataset that I'm trying to create 
a histogram for. I don't seem to be able to use hist directly as I can 
not create an R vector of size greater than 2.2G. I considered 
condensing the data  previous to loading it into R  and just plotting 
the frequencies as a barplot; unfortunately, barplot does not support 
plotting the values according to a set of x-axis positions.

What I have is something similar to:

ys <- c(12,3,7,22,10)
xs <- c(1,30,35,39,60)

and I'd like the bars (ys) to appear at the positions described by xs. I 
can get this to work on smaller sets by filling zero values in for 
missing ys for the entire range of xs but in my case this would again 
create a vector too large for R.

Is there another way to use the two vectors to create a simulated 
frequency histogram? Is there a way to create a histogram object (as 
returned by hist) from the condensed data so that plot would handle it 
correctly?

Thanks in advance,

Jesse