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Will
Will

Reputation: 822

How do you use hist to plot relative frequencies in R?

How do you use hist() to plot relative frequencies in R?

If I do the following, I will get a density plot, but I want a relative frequency plot:

a <- c(0,0,0,1,1,2)
hist(a, freq=FALSE)

I want to see a histogram with the following relative frequencies:

.5 for 0 to 1,

.33 for 1 to 2,

and .166 for 2 to 3.

Upvotes: 17

Views: 84992

Answers (5)

MurrayStokely
MurrayStokely

Reputation: 345

I've added a new function to the HistogramTools package on CRAN, PlotRelativeFrequency() which takes a histogram object and generates a relative frequency histogram plot. This is available now from R-Forge and will be in HistogramTools 0.3 for the next CRAN release.

Basically, you just need to make two modifications to the default histograms in R. First, you need to divide each count by the sum of all of the counts, and you need to replace the y-axis label to note that it is now plotting Relative Frequencies.

x<-runif(100)
h<-hist(x, plot=F)
h$counts <- h$counts / sum(h$counts)
plot(h, freq=TRUE, ylab="Relative Frequency")

Or, simply

install.packages("HistogramTools", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
library(HistogramTools)
PlotRelativeFrequency(hist(x, plot=F))

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Upvotes: 9

king2rook1
king2rook1

Reputation: 21

histo<-hist(yourvariable)
barplot(histo$counts/n,col="white",space=0)->bp   # n=length(yourvariable)
axis(1,at=c(bp),labels=histo$mids)
title(ylab="Relative Frequency",xlab="Your Variable Name")

Upvotes: 2

Alessandro Jacopson
Alessandro Jacopson

Reputation: 18593

Not properly a traditional histogram...

h<-hist(yourdata)
plot(h$mids,100*h$counts/sum(h$counts),type="h")

Upvotes: 2

caracal
caracal

Reputation: 2770

hist(a, breaks=c(0, 1, 2, 3), freq=FALSE, right=FALSE)

Upvotes: 7

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 11764

you can try using the histogram() function in lattice

a <- c(0,0,0,1,1,2)
library(lattice)
histogram(a)

defaults to percent.

Upvotes: 14

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