[R] histogram-like plot with two variables

Jim Lemon jim at bitwrit.com.au
Mon Sep 29 12:55:19 CEST 2008


Jörg Groß wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to plot a binomial propability distribution.
>
> I know how to generate the data;
>
>    x <- seq(from=0, to=14, by=1)
>    y <- dbinom(x, 14, 0.7, log = FALSE)
>
> but what I don't know is how to plot this within a histogram like plot.
> Because the histogram function only accepts one variable.
>
> Is there a way to get the look of "hist()" with two variables?
>
>
>
> I tried:
> plot(x,y, type="h")
>   but the bars are very thin -is there a way to define the width?
>
>
>   
Hi Jorg,
Does this do what you want?

library(plotrix)
barp(y,names.arg=0:14)


Jim



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