[R] ggplot2: histogram with proportions (or %)

[stephen sefick]

this is probably suboptimal - but do it outside of qplot() add it to a
data frame and then qplot() with Hadley's advice.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:19 AM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:49 AM, ONKELINX, Thierry
> <Thierry.ONKELINX at inbo.be> wrote:
>> Dear Bernd,
>>
>> AFAIK you can only get counts, densitys, counts scale to a maximum of 1
>> and likewise densitys. But you can alter the labels on the scales
>> manually.
>
> Well, a proportion is just the count divided by the total count, so
> you should be able to do:
>
> qplot(carat, ..count.. / sum(..count..), data=diamonds, geom="histogram")
>
> but unfortunately a bug seems to have crept into the latest version
> and this doesn't work.
>
> Hadley
>
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