We will now be creating histograms in R. The code to create a histogram is the following:
hist(data, main="Title", xlab="x-axis label")
data
is the vector that includes the data.
Example:
df <- read.csv('Data/NHANES.csv')
head(df$Height)
## [1] 164.7 164.7 164.7 105.4 168.4 133.1
hist(df$Height, main='Height in the U.S.', xlab='Height (cm)')
We can easily change the number of bins in a histogram by setting breaks=
argument inside hist()
and specify the number of bins afterwards:
hist(df$Height, main='Height in the U.S.', xlab='Height (cm)', breaks=5)
hist(df$Height, main='Height in the U.S.', xlab='Height (cm)', breaks=20)