Constructing a histogram with words as labels as height as frequency?

Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


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> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Caitlin
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 11:36 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Constructing a histogram with words as labels as height as
> frequency?
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I need to construct a plot showing words on the x-axis and how many
> times
> each word was given as a verbal response on the y-axis as solid bar
> (frequency). Is there a convenient function to do this in R? I
> considered
> hist(), but I'm not sure how to construct the text file. Example:
> 
> apple, 2
> pear, 14
> house, 1
> beach, 5
> computer, 15
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ~Caitlin
> 
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