[R] What is the easiest way to turn a dataframe into a barplot?

Christopher W. Ryan cryan at binghamton.edu
Thu May 12 19:29:47 CEST 2016


Here is one way:

dd <- data.frame(var1=c("string1", "string2", "string3"), var2=c(3,7,4))
dd
with(dd, barplot(var2, names.arg=var1))

--Chris Ryan
Binghamton, NY

yoursurrogategod at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello, I can't post my code since it's on a work computer.
> 
> But basically, I have a dataframe that has two columns, one is a string and the other is an integer.  I want to turn this into a vertival barplot where on the x-axis I have the string in the first columb and then the plot will display the integer count.
> 
> I have found many examples online and most of those matched either odd edge cases or putting the data into a format that strips out some of the data and I can't use it later.
> 
> This should be a breeze, what am I missing?
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