Message-ID: <loom.20080917T182444-354@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2008-09-17T18:42:49Z
From: Ben Bolker
Subject: Graphical Display of Values' Distribution
Steve Murray <smurray444 <at> hotmail.com> writes:
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have a column within a dataframe of values which range between 1 and 2. I
want to display graphically the
> distribution of these values (i.e. are they clustered towards either exteme?
Or spread evenly?). What is
> a good way of doing this in R?
>
> I've tried a few things, including using the 'hist' command, but receive the
following error message:
>
> > hist(urban.long[3])
> Error in hist.default(urban.long[3]) : 'x' must be numeric
>
> ...which is strange because all the values *are* numeric!
>
hist, plot(density(x)), rug ...
are you sure that your column really is numeric and hasn't
gotten turned into a factor because of a glitch? what do you
get from class(urban.long[3]) ?
Ben Bolker