R help - Oct 2001 - hist with relative frequency

Dear R People:

Here is yet another histogram question (yahq), please:

When I use the hist() command with
freq=F, I get density on the side.

I would really like to have relative frequency; that is,
Rf = density/(sum(density))

Is there a step that I'm leaving out, please?

thanks!

Sincerely,
Erin
hodgess at uhddx01.dt.uh.edu
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Erin Hodgess <hodgess at uhddx01.dt.uh.edu> writes:
> Dear R People:
> 
> Here is yet another histogram question (yahq), please:
> 
> When I use the hist() command with
> freq=F, I get density on the side.
> 
> I would really like to have relative frequency; that is,
> Rf = density/(sum(density))
> 
> Is there a step that I'm leaving out, please?
Several people would probably contest that that is really what you
want (histograms are supposed to be density estimates), but if you
insist then you could use x <- hist(..., plot=F), normalize the count
or density component, then plot(x).

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