[R] histogram plots with many different samples

[ONKELINX, Thierry]

Dear Evrim,

That is easy to do with the ggplot2 package. You only need the data in a
"long" format. melt() is very usefull to convert data from a wide to a
long format.

library(ggplot2)
n <- 100
Wide <- data.frame(X1 = rnorm(n, mean = -0.5), X2 = rnorm(n, mean = 0,
sd = 2), X3 = rnorm(n, mean = 0.5))
Long <- melt(Wide)
ggplot(Long, aes(x = value, fill = variable)) + geom_histogram(position
= position_dodge())
#some alternatives
ggplot(Long, aes(x = value, fill = variable)) + geom_histogram()
ggplot(Long, aes(x = value)) + geom_histogram() + facet_wrap(~ variable)
ggplot(Long, aes(x = value)) + geom_histogram() + facet_grid(variable ~
.)

HTH,

Thierry
 


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Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
Namens evrim akar
Verzonden: woensdag 25 maart 2009 15:40
Aan: r-help at r-project.org
Onderwerp: [R] histogram plots with many different samples

Dear R users,

I would like to draw some histograms as seen in the page whose address I
wrote below. I searched through the web a lot and I found a page which
describes how I can do it for older versions of R. For newer versions
they
recommend to install the package R.basics in R.clusters but this does
not
exist. The address of the web page is
http://www1.maths.lth.se/help/R/plot.histogram/

Unfortunately I could not find any other resource or help. Is it
possible to
make histograms like I wanted with R? If so, could you please give any
advise on how I can do it?

Thank you,

Regards,

evrim

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