R help - May 2011 - 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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?barplot

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> 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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On 05/04/2011 03:35 AM, Caitlin wrote:
> 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
>
Hi Caitlin,

barp(caitlinsdata[,1],names.arg=caitlinsdata[,2]

Jim