[R] Want to create a histogram

Jim Lemon jim at bitwrit.com.au
Sun Oct 20 05:29:43 CEST 2013


On 10/20/2013 11:54 AM, kannan at iitb.ac.in wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> For a report that I am writing, I need to create a histogram plot with
> x-axis fixed as very bad, bad, fair, good and very good - i.e. the order
> not changed.  Can someone give me an example?  For sample purposes, I am
> giving the following data: 159, 374, 3765, 11388, 6708.  Thanks,
>
Hi Kannan,
You can get something that looks like what you want with these totals. 
Try this:

barplot(c(159,374,3765,11388,6708),
  names.arg=c("very bad","bad","fair","good","very good"))

Histograms are usually created from the raw data.

Jim



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