Thanks for taking a look. As you can see from my (reduced) example below, I am drawing on counts and then asking bin to aggregate. My hunch is that ylab() somehow gets over-ridden in the collaboration implicit in geom_histogram.
Accordingly, any comment that illuminates the actual mechanics invoked by this (and how to examine them) would be much appareciated. vals<-c(-2.601,-2.073,-1.341,-1.126,-1.022,-0.847,-0.839,-0.791,-0.790,-0.683,-0.572,-0.556,-0.538,-0.454,-0.394,-0.342,-0.313,-0.184,- 0.138,0.302,0.307 ,0.364,0.796,0.830,0.992,1.029,1.305,1.334) cnts<-c(186.8,541.0,221.5,191.2,545.6,317.9,375.6,335.5,154.4,199.1,305.1,302.4,179.2,164.8,155.0,281.4,158.6,560.3,208.6,164.1,157.2 ,505.2,1282.9,181.6,273.0,315.3,166.9,222.8) qdata<-as.data.frame(cbind(vals,cnts)) qplot(vals,weight=cnts,data=qdata,binwidth=.29,main="test")+ylab("NEW") -----Original Message----- From: istaz...@gmail.com [mailto:istaz...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ista Zahn Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 2:02 PM To: Steven Rytina, Prof. Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] ggplot question: changing the label for the Y axis on a histogram Hi Steven, The basic example works: qplot(rnorm(100)) + ylab("Bin Counts") Please post a reproducible example that illustrates the problem you are having. Best, Ista On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Steven Rytina, Prof. <steven.ryt...@mcgill.ca> wrote: > Some help with how to re-label the vertical axis in a histogram would be > appreciated. > > qplot(off.sc,weight=rel.freq,binwidth=.29,main="test > Figure"+ylab("New from inside"))+ylab("New from outside")+ > > xlab("off.sc\nAggregated frequency plots for 17 equal intervals.") > > The code produces a proper histogram. However, the y axis is labeled count > and this needs to be changed because the data is relative > frequencies (sample proportions.) > ylab() does not do the trick (in either position). Does anyone know what > works? > > Thanks > Steve Rytina, McGill University > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.