[R] ggplot2 histograms

ONKELINX, Thierry
Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:57:45 -0000

Dear Sandy,

Have a look at the position argument of geom_histogram.

ggplot(data=dafr, aes(x = d1, fill=d2)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 1,
position = position_dodge())
ggplot(data=dafr, aes(x = d1, fill=d2)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 1,
position = position_dodge(width = 0.5), alpha = 0.5)

Best regards,

Thierry

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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] Namens Small Sandy (NHS
> Greater Glasgow & Clyde)
> Verzonden: dinsdag 30 november 2010 15:37
> Aan: r-help at r-project.org
> Onderwerp: [R] ggplot2 histograms
>
> Hi
>
> With ggplot2 I can very easily create beautiful histograms
> but I would like to put two histograms on the same plot. The
> histograms may be over-lapping.
> When they are overlapping the bars are shown on top of each
> other (so that the overall height is the sum of the two). Is
> there any way to get them to display overlapping (with
> smaller value in front, larger value behind) so that the
> overall height is equal to the height of the largest value
>
> The following demonstrates the problem (there is probably a
> simple way to generate the sequence in d1 but I don't know it
> and just threw this together quickly)
> d1<-c(1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,5,6,6,6,6,7,7,7,8,8,9,6,7,7,
8,8,8,9,9,9,9,10,10,10,10,10,11,11,11,11,12,12,12,13,13,14,15,15,16,16,1
6,17,17,17,17,18,18,18,18,18)
>
> d2<-c(rep("a",25), rep("b",39))
> dafr<-data.frame(d1,d2)
>
> library(ggplot)
> qplot(d1, data=dafr, fill=d2, geom='histogram', binwidth = 1)
>
> Many thanks for any help
> Sandy
>
> Sandy Small
> Clinical Physicist
> NHS Forth Valley
> and
> NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
>
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