Steve Murray <smurray444 <at> hotmail.com> writes: > > > Dear all, > > I have a column within a dataframe of values which range between 1 and 2. I want to display graphically the > distribution of these values (i.e. are they clustered towards either exteme? Or spread evenly?). What is > a good way of doing this in R? > > I've tried a few things, including using the 'hist' command, but receive the following error message: > > > hist(urban.long[3]) > Error in hist.default(urban.long[3]) : 'x' must be numeric > > ...which is strange because all the values *are* numeric! >
hist, plot(density(x)), rug ... are you sure that your column really is numeric and hasn't gotten turned into a factor because of a glitch? what do you get from class(urban.long[3]) ? Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ 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.
