On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 09:16 -0700, James wrote: > Hi, > > I thought that I had read somewhere that there was a really simple > way to overlay the probability density function of a normal > distribution over a histogram, after the histogram has already been > plotted. Possibly a one word command. > > I've found this email from the archives, but I don't think this is > what I'm looking for. I thought there was something more simple than > the curve function. > > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/04/3523.html > > R> x <- rnorm(100) > R> hist(x, freq = FALSE) > R> curve(dnorm, col = 2, add = TRUE) > > Is there a simple way to do this, or is my memory failing me? Thank > you. > > James
That seems simple enough to me. 1 line, the holy grail! Is there a problem with using curve in your actual application? HTH G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
