R help - Feb 2009 - Adjusting the Axis in a histogram to the prespecified breaks

Hello
I tried a few searches on hist, histogram, equidist and space (space=0 was
mentioned in one contribution), but none of that so far worked. It also says
in the help "##-- For non-equidistant breaks, counts should NOT be graphed
unscaled:" - which is precisely what I am looking for, but I cannot find
it.

I want to make a histogram using breaks which are spaced exponentially and
in reference to the largest item in the dataset
(e.g. 0,1,2,4,8,16 if the largest one is 14).
I want to make a histogram where the units on the axes have the same spacing
as the breaks used for the histogram. I could of course log the whole data
set, but then explaining that transformation within a presentation is
generally not a pleasant exercise. On the other hand I would like to keep
the code short and thus would like to avoid issues like factorisation.
Something like
x<- breaks ....
hist(data, breaks= x, "xaxisbreaks=x")
At the moment the axis is equalspaced by units (2,4,6,8) with 0-2 having 2
areas and the blocks 4-6 and 6-8 only having one block. 

I tried also the xlog entry (i.e. log="x") which returned
"log" is not valid
(ist kein Grafikparameter).
I tried also fixing things with the par utility (>par(log=TRUE)) which again
did not work.

Hence if somebody has a recommendation (possibly a link to an older
contribution which I did not find using the above searches), that would be
great.
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:08:24AM -0800, Christian Langkamp
wrote:
> I could of course log the whole data
> set, but then explaining that transformation within a presentation is
> generally not a pleasant exercise.
You don't have to explain it.  Just calculate the hist of the log and
label the axis with 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16

See ?axis

  Titus