[R] multi-class histogram?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Karin Lagesen <karin.lagesen at medisin.uio.no> writes:

> I am new to R, and I couldn't find the answers to my question in a faq. 
> This could however be because I didn't know what to look for...:)
> 
> I have three classes of data, data for bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. 
> I wish to display these in a histogram where all of the values are used 
> to calculate each column. But, I want each column split in three, where 
> the size of each coloured area represents the proportions of the values 
> in that column that comes from each of the three classes. Do you have 
> any tips on how I do this? 

Well, the thing is that a histogram tries to represent a probability
distribution on the line (it is a density estimator), and the thing
that you want does not; barplot() is better at this sort of job.

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