Kia ora Ivan
I think you might want a barplot.
?hist
under 'See Also:' states:
Typical plots with vertical bars are _not_ histograms. Consider
'barplot' or 'plot(*, type = "h")' for such bar plots.
[The online help in R is good.]
HTH ....
Peter Alspach
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> Hello everyone. Just have a question , cant figure out how to
> make this histogram.
>
> I have this table, that i stored in a variable name
> new.data2. Table looks like this
>
> Year GeoArea SmpNo Month Gear Maturity Length Age YearC
> 1989 1 362 10 22 1 225 1 1988
> 1991 1 267 10 10 1 191 1 1990
> 1991 1 267 10 10 1 202 1 1990
> 1992 1 305 10 8 1 162 1 1991
> 1992 1 305 10 8 1 165 1 1991
> 1992 1 305 10 8 1 166 1 1991
> 1992 1 305 10 8 1 167 1 1991
> 1992 1 305 10 8 1 167 1 1991
> 1992 1 305 10 8 1 169 1 1991
> 1992 1 305 10 8 1 170 1 1991
>
> Now I need to make a histogram of Length vs YearC. I would
> guess that Length would be on the Y-axis and YearC variable
> would be on X-axis. I have tried many different combinations
> with command 'hist' but im always getting error " 'x' must be
> numeric " ... I think im getting that error because of the
> header which is not numeric. Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks guys.
>
> Ivan.
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