How to plot histogram from the R output?

Question

I am trying to plot histogram from the R output which is not a data frame. Below are my codes and the output.

x <- replicate(1000, 
               {y <- rpois(200, 1)
               {lambda0 <- 1
for(i in 1:1) 
  {
  if( i == 1 ) cat( sprintf("%15s %15s %15s %15s\n", "LogL", "Score", "Information", "New Estimate"))
  logL        <- sum((-lambda0) + y*(log(lambda0)))
  score       <- sum((y/lambda0)-1)
  information <- sum(y/(lambda0)^2)
  lambda1      <- lambda0 + score/information
  cat( sprintf("%15.4f %15.4f %15.4f %15.5f\n", logL, score, information, lambda1))
  lambda0 <- lambda1
}  
} 
               })

Below is my output

I'm trying to take the new estimate from the output and create histogram. Can you please help?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You need to store the value for New Estimate during your loop. This way you can retrieve your results after the loop is finished. Normally when using a loop, you specify a variable in advance in which you can save the result for each iteration. Eg:

numbers <- 1:3

result <- list(length = length(numbers)

for (i in seq_along(numbers){

result[[i]] <- numbers[[i]] + 1

}

In this example there is a vector of three numbers, you want to add one to each number and save the result. You can do this by creating a list of length 3 (adding length is better, but not necessary) and for each i th iteration, you save the result in the i th element of the list.

After finishing the loop you can retrieve the results from the result variable. And you can retrieve the i th result by using square brackets: result[[i]] .