Thank you for the email. What is the default "n"? Thanks! On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:06 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote: Increasing the value of 'n' given to density will give an estimate at more points so it will look smoother.? Try n=2^18. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Fix Ace <acefix at rocketmail.com> wrote: ?I have a dataset with 6187 elements, ranged from 3 to 104028. When I tried to examine only small range of data, I found that the plot was not smooth (as shown below): plot(density(test$V2), xlim=c(0,1000)) ?Is there away to make it smoother? Thanks a lot!! ? ? ? ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Fix Ace wrote What is the default "n"? 512: > length(density(rnorm(10^6))$x) [1] 512 > args(density.default) function (x, bw = "nrd0", adjust = 1, kernel = c("gaussian", "epanechnikov", "rectangular", "triangular", "biweight", "cosine", "optcosine"), weights = NULL, window = kernel, width, give.Rkern = FALSE, n = 512, from, to, cut = 3, na.rm FALSE, ...) NULL > ?density # or ?density.default, should also tell you about its meaning Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Fix Ace <acefix at rocketmail.com> wrote:> Thank you for the email. > > What is the default "n"? > > Thanks! > > > > On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:06 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> > wrote: > > > Increasing the value of 'n' given to density will give an estimate at more > points so it will look smoother. Try n=2^18. > > Bill Dunlap > TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Fix Ace <acefix at rocketmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have a dataset with 6187 elements, ranged from 3 to 104028. When I > tried to examine only small range of data, I found that the plot was not > smooth (as shown below): > plot(density(test$V2), xlim=c(0,1000)) > > > Is there away to make it smoother? > Thanks a lot!! > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > <http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Thank you very much! I do need to learn more about R!! On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 9:26 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote: Fix Ace wrote?? ?What is the default "n"? 512:? ?> length(density(rnorm(10^6))$x)? ?[1] 512? ?> args(density.default)? ?function (x, bw = "nrd0", adjust = 1, kernel = c("gaussian",?? ? ? ?"epanechnikov", "rectangular", "triangular", "biweight",?? ? ? ?"cosine", "optcosine"), weights = NULL, window = kernel,?? ? ? ?width, give.Rkern = FALSE, n = 512, from, to, cut = 3, na.rm = FALSE,?? ? ? ?...)? ?NULL? ?> ?density # or ?density.default, should also tell you about its meaning Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Fix Ace <acefix at rocketmail.com> wrote: Thank you for the email. What is the default "n"? Thanks! On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:06 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote: Increasing the value of 'n' given to density will give an estimate at more points so it will look smoother.? Try n=2^18. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Fix Ace <acefix at rocketmail.com> wrote: ?I have a dataset with 6187 elements, ranged from 3 to 104028. When I tried to examine only small range of data, I found that the plot was not smooth (as shown below): plot(density(test$V2), xlim=c(0,1000)) ?Is there away to make it smoother? Thanks a lot!! ? ? ? ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]