[R-lang] wonky PDF labelling behavior in R (Paula Chesley)

[Steven Piantadosi]

Hi Paula,

hist itself is a plotting function so you don't need to call plot on it.
Try something like 

pdf("/Users/pchesley/linguistics/research/memory/data/r/figs/
figure_2.pdf") % attached figure_2.pdf

hist(pct$V1, breaks = seq(0, 1, 0.05), xlab = "% of speakers having seen new word before", ylab = "number of new words", main=" ")

dev.off()

hist also returns info about the histogram (counts, the mids of the bars, etc), which you can use to do fancy
histogram plots if you want. You can read about them with ?hist. 

++Steve


On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 13:27 -0700, r-lang-request at ling.ucsd.edu wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> When trying to plot a pdf of a certain linguistic distribution, I am  
> having trouble having the labels I give as arguments show up in the  
> PDF. What shows up in the PDF are the unhelpful default labels R  
> gives. This is really strange, because I've done the same thing  
> several times no problem, and on the default x11 output the correct  
> labels show up. See attached figure 1 (correct labelling on x11) and  
> figure 2 (unfortunate labelling in PDF). This happens when in both  
> GUI and command-line modes of R. I've shut down other R sessions, and  
> there's no possibility that the file is the wrong file, either.
> 
> Here is my code for creating the PDF file:
> 
>  > pdf("/Users/pchesley/linguistics/research/memory/data/r/figs/ 
> figure_2.pdf") % attached figure_2.pdf
>  > plot(hist(pct$V1, breaks = seq(0, 1, 0.05)), xlab = "% of speakers  
> having seen new word before", ylab = "number of new words", main=" ")
>  > dev.off()
> 
> Can anyone tell me what's going on here? I'm flummoxed, and hoping  
> it's not painfully obvious. :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Paula
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