Comments on: The Future of Astronomy & Astrophysics in America http://blog.aas.org/2010/11/01/the-future-of-astronomy-astrophysics-in-america/ The Steady State of the Union Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:51:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dick http://blog.aas.org/2010/11/01/the-future-of-astronomy-astrophysics-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-3588 Dick Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:14:47 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=196#comment-3588 Well, The Future of SPACED-BASED Astronomy & Astrophysics in America. There’s a lot going on on the ground.

]]> By: Eileen http://blog.aas.org/2010/11/01/the-future-of-astronomy-astrophysics-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-3587 Eileen Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:23:35 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=196#comment-3587 ah, line breaks got taken out – those commands should be 4 separate lines.

]]> By: Eileen http://blog.aas.org/2010/11/01/the-future-of-astronomy-astrophysics-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-3586 Eileen Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:22:32 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=196#comment-3586 Bethany – Interesting post.

Xcel is not a very good program for this sort of thing – leave it for the financial analysis, lol.

Try downloading ‘R’ (www.r-project.org). Once downloaded, you can read the quick-start guide or search for help on R-search: http://www.rseek.org/

If your data is a single column in a text file, making a histogram is as simple as:

pdf(“output.pdf”) data <- read.table(“file.txt”) hist(t$V1,main=”title”,xlab=”my data”) dev.off()

If you want to see how the graph looks without making a PDF, you can omit the first and last lines.

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