[R] "Raw" histogram plots

[roger koenker]

take a look at

	?stem

There is still a place for handtools in the age of integrated
circuits.  Of course, avoiding binning isn't really desirable.

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On Feb 26, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Andre Nathan wrote:

> Hello
>
> I need to plot a histogram, but insted of using bars, I'd like to plot
> the data points. I've been doing it like this so far:
>
>  h <- hist(x, plot = F)
>  plot(y = x$counts / sum(x$counts),
>       x = x$breaks[2:length(x$breaks)],
>       type = "p", log = "xy")
>
> Sometimes I want to have a look at the "raw" data (avoiding any kind  
> of
> binning). When x only contains integers, it's easy to just use bins of
> size 1 when generating h with "breaks = seq(0, max(x))".
>
> Is there any way to do something similar when x consists of fractional
> data? What I'm doing is setting a small bin length (for example,  
> "breaks
> = seq(0, 1, by = 1e-6)", but there's still a chance that points will  
> be
> grouped in a single bin.
>
> Is there a better way to do this kind of "raw histogram" plotting?
>
> Thanks,
> Andre
>
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