[R] Way to rotate a histogram?

[David Winsemius]

I believe that hist will return a vector that could be passed to  
barplot:

  h.islands <- hist(islands)

 > barplot(h.islands$intensities, horiz=TRUE)  # or
 > barplot(h.islands$counts, horiz=TRUE)

David Winsemius

On Mar 17, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Jason Rupert wrote:

>
>
> Here is what I have so far:
>> test_data<-rnorm(100)
>> par(mfrow=c(1,3)) # 3 rows by 1 columns layout of plots
>> hist(test_data)
>> boxplot(test_data)
>> qqnorm(test_data)
>
> I noticed that I can rotate a boxplot via "horizontal", but  
> apparently "hist" does not have that functionality.
>
> I tried stacking the plots vertically:
> test_data<-rnorm(100)
> par(mfrow=c(3,1)) # 3 rows by 1 columns layout of plots
> hist(test_data)
> boxplot(test_data, horizontal=TRUE)
> qqnorm(test_data)
>
> However, I would have to rotate the QQnorm plot, which would be  
> pretty confusing and I think non-standard.
>
> Thank you again for any feedback and insight regarding trying to  
> reproduce the JMP figure shown at:
> http://n2.nabble.com/Can-R-produce-this-plot--td2489288.html
>
> --- On Tue, 3/17/09, Jason Rupert <jasonkrupert at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Jason Rupert <jasonkrupert at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [R] R package to automatically produce combination plot?
>> To: R-help at r-project.org
>> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 9:39 AM
>> I guess no reply means there is not an existing package to
>> produce the plot?
>>
>> I will post the results of my script to hopefully help
>> others who are trying to formulate the same plot.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>>
>> --- On Mon, 3/16/09, Jason Rupert
>> <jasonkrupert at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Jason Rupert <jasonkrupert at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: [R] R package to automatically produce
>> combination plot?
>>> To: R-help at r-project.org
>>> Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 8:14 PM
>>> By any chance is there an R package that automatically
>>> produces the plot shown at the following link:
>>>
>> http://n2.nabble.com/Can-R-produce-this-plot--td2489288.html
>>>
>>> That is an R package to produce on plot that has the
>>> following:
>>> (a) a vertically oriented histogram,
>>> (b) associated barplot, and
>>> (c) quantile-quantile plot (Q-Q Plot).
>>>
>>> This is based on a class lecture from University of
>>> Pennsylvania:
>>> stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~mcjon/stat-431/lecture-02.pdf
>>>
>>> I am pretty confident I can put one together, but just
>>> wanted to check that there does not already exist an R
>>> package to output such a plot.
>>>
>>> Thanks again.
>>>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT