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by Ola Caster
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Sorry for spamming the list...
I noticed that if you first produce a date histogram with the hist()
function, like this:
basic.histogram <- hist(my.data$date, breaks = "months", plot = FALSE)
and then try to transfer the breaks from that histogram to a lattice
equivalent, like this:
histogram(~date, data=my.data, breaks=basic.histogram$breaks)
then I get a histogram that looks exactly like the original one, except the
bins are not placed correctly on the x-axis. In my case they were all
shifted almost a year to the right. Does anyone know why this happened and
if there is a way to deal with it?
Many thanks
Ola
2008/5/9 Ola Caster <ola.caster@...>:
>
>
> Thanks a lot Deepayan. Could you please inform me what update are you
> referring to, and give me some very vague sense when it might happen (within
> weeks, months, or years)?
>
> Many thanks
> Ola
>
> 2008/5/8 Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan.sarkar@...>:
>
> On 5/8/08, Ola Caster <ola.caster@...> wrote:
>> > Dear help list,
>> >
>> > Is it possible to draw lattice histograms (i.e. use the histogram()
>> function
>> > and not the hist() function) with objects of class "Date"?
>>
>> Sort of. The default calculation of 'breaks' doesn't work, so
>>
>> histogram(~date, data=my.data)
>>
>> will currently fail (I will fix this in the next update). However,
>>
>> histogram(~date, data=my.data, breaks = 10)
>> histogram(~date, data=my.data, breaks = "fd")
>>
>> etc., should work. The help page for histogram is somewhat ambiguous; it
>> says:
>>
>> breaks:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Other valid values
>> of 'breaks' are those of the 'breaks' argument in 'hist'.
>> This allows specification of 'breaks' as an integer giving
>> the number of bins (similar to 'nint'), as a character string
>> denoting a method, and as a function.
>>
>> What is meant here is that valid values of breaks in 'hist.default'
>> will work, not those for any other methods. In particular, breaks =
>> "months" will not work.
>>
>> -Deepayan
>>
>> > I've tried solutions like
>> >
>> > histogram(~date, data=my.data, breaks="months")
>> >
>> > but it doesn't seem to work.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions are welcome.
>> >
>> > Many thanks
>> > Ola Caster
>>
>
>
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I noticed that if you first produce a date histogram with the hist()
function, like this:
basic.histogram <- hist(my.data$date, breaks = "months", plot = FALSE)
and then try to transfer the breaks from that histogram to a lattice
equivalent, like this:
histogram(~date, data=my.data, breaks=basic.histogram$breaks)
then I get a histogram that looks exactly like the original one, except the
bins are not placed correctly on the x-axis. In my case they were all
shifted almost a year to the right. Does anyone know why this happened and
if there is a way to deal with it?
Many thanks
Ola
2008/5/9 Ola Caster <ola.caster@...>:
>
>
> Thanks a lot Deepayan. Could you please inform me what update are you
> referring to, and give me some very vague sense when it might happen (within
> weeks, months, or years)?
>
> Many thanks
> Ola
>
> 2008/5/8 Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan.sarkar@...>:
>
> On 5/8/08, Ola Caster <ola.caster@...> wrote:
>> > Dear help list,
>> >
>> > Is it possible to draw lattice histograms (i.e. use the histogram()
>> function
>> > and not the hist() function) with objects of class "Date"?
>>
>> Sort of. The default calculation of 'breaks' doesn't work, so
>>
>> histogram(~date, data=my.data)
>>
>> will currently fail (I will fix this in the next update). However,
>>
>> histogram(~date, data=my.data, breaks = 10)
>> histogram(~date, data=my.data, breaks = "fd")
>>
>> etc., should work. The help page for histogram is somewhat ambiguous; it
>> says:
>>
>> breaks:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Other valid values
>> of 'breaks' are those of the 'breaks' argument in 'hist'.
>> This allows specification of 'breaks' as an integer giving
>> the number of bins (similar to 'nint'), as a character string
>> denoting a method, and as a function.
>>
>> What is meant here is that valid values of breaks in 'hist.default'
>> will work, not those for any other methods. In particular, breaks =
>> "months" will not work.
>>
>> -Deepayan
>>
>> > I've tried solutions like
>> >
>> > histogram(~date, data=my.data, breaks="months")
>> >
>> > but it doesn't seem to work.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions are welcome.
>> >
>> > Many thanks
>> > Ola Caster
>>
>
>
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