Re: [R] converting histogram to barchart

2009-04-22 Thread Kingsford Jones
Hi Thomas, Here's a simple example of adding a KDE line to a plotted histogram: set.seed(222) x <- rnorm(100) hist(x, freq=FALSE) lines(density(x), lty=2, col=2, lwd=2) Note the need to set the freq to FALSE -- otherwise hist will calculate counts within bins rather than probability densities.

[R] converting histogram to barchart

2009-04-22 Thread Thomas Fröjd
Hi list, After a lot of tweaking i have managed to create a histogram with an overlaying density plot. The histogram shows a sample of birth weights of babies and the density plot shows birth weights from a much larger reference populaton. My data is divided in 0.1 Kg bins so in the code below bin