[R] "Raw" histogram plots
roger koenker
rkoenker at uiuc.edu
Tue Feb 26 23:20:12 CET 2008
take a look at
?stem
There is still a place for handtools in the age of integrated
circuits. Of course, avoiding binning isn't really desirable.
url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker
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On Feb 26, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Andre Nathan wrote:
> Hello
>
> I need to plot a histogram, but insted of using bars, I'd like to plot
> the data points. I've been doing it like this so far:
>
> h <- hist(x, plot = F)
> plot(y = x$counts / sum(x$counts),
> x = x$breaks[2:length(x$breaks)],
> type = "p", log = "xy")
>
> Sometimes I want to have a look at the "raw" data (avoiding any kind
> of
> binning). When x only contains integers, it's easy to just use bins of
> size 1 when generating h with "breaks = seq(0, max(x))".
>
> Is there any way to do something similar when x consists of fractional
> data? What I'm doing is setting a small bin length (for example,
> "breaks
> = seq(0, 1, by = 1e-6)", but there's still a chance that points will
> be
> grouped in a single bin.
>
> Is there a better way to do this kind of "raw histogram" plotting?
>
> Thanks,
> Andre
>
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