This article represents code samples in R programming language which could be used to draw histogram and density plot. Note that these plots are very useful for examining the data spread. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.
Code Sample – Draw Histogram and Density Plot
Histrogram and density plot are very useful for examining the spread of a data variable. Following R commands with ggplot package helps in drawing histogram and density plots. As I am explaining with ggplot package, I am using diamonds data which comes with ggplot package. Pay attention to some of the following:
- Draw Histogram: Command “ggplot(data) + geom_histogram(aes(x=variableName))” is used to draw the histogram. One could also provide binwidth as an additional parameter to geom_histogram function
- Draw Density Plot: Command “ggplot(data) + geom_density(aes(x=variableName))” is used to create the density plot.
# Histogram to evaluate the spread of carat data
ggplot(diamonds) + geom_histogram(aes(x=carat))
# Density plot to evaluate the spread of carat data
ggplot(data=diamonds) + geom_density(aes(x=carat))
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