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Huck Smith
Huck Smith

Reputation: 81

How to plot histogram of x and y values?

Today I want to learn a little bit about the R statistical programming language.

I'm not finding the tutorials to be helpful yet.

I hope to jumpstart this effort with a simple task.

I have 3 x values: 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 and 3 y values: 1.2, 0.1, 4.4

I want to plot a histogram with this data.

q1: What is the least amount of R syntax I can use to plot this historgram?

q2: Can I put the data in myfile.csv and ask R to read myfile.csv and then plot the histogram?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 29244

Answers (2)

nzcoops
nzcoops

Reputation: 9380

dat <- data.frame(x=c(1.5, 2.5, 3.5), y=c(1.2, 0.1, 4.4))
barplot(dat$y, names.arg=dat$x, ylim=c(0,5))

That will do what you're after. I think. Labels can be added like so.

barplot(dat$y, names.arg=dat$x, ylim=c(0,5), ylab="blah", xlab="lol")

enter image description here

A histogram has bars touching (continuous x variable), and bar chart/plot doesn't, strictly speaking, so this may not be what you're after...

Upvotes: 9

user554546
user554546

Reputation:

Er, do you mean a scatter-plot, or a three-dimensional histogram with (x,y) pairs of (1.5,1.2), (2.5,0.1), and (3.5,4.4)? If the former, just use plot(x,y) to get the scatterplot, use write to output the data to file, and use read.csv to read the data from a csv file.

Upvotes: 1

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