[R] X-axis labels in histograms drawn by the "truehist" function

[Marc Schwartz (via MN)]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 14:58 -0400, Ravi Varadhan wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I had sent this email last week, but received no reply.  So, I am resending
> it - please excuse me for the redundant email.
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> I have a simple problem that I would appreciate getting some tips.  I am
> using the "truehist" function within an "apply" call to plot multiple
> histograms.  I can't figure out how to get truehist to use the column names
> of the matrix as the labels for the x-axis of the histograms.  
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> Here is a simple example:
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> library(MASS)  # this contains the truehist function
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> X <- matrix(runif(4000),ncol=4)
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> colnames(X) <- c("X1","X2","X3","X4")
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> par(mfrow=c(2,2))
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> apply(X, 2, function(x)truehist(x))
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> In this example, I would like the x-labels of the histograms to be "X1",
> "X2", etc.
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> Any help is appreciated.
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> Best,
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> Ravi

Ravi,

Gabor did reply:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-September/114019.html

HTH,

Marc Schwartz