discretePlot: Plot Distribution of Discrete Numeric Variable

In RcmdrMisc: R Commander Miscellaneous Functions

Plot Distribution of Discrete Numeric Variable

Description

Plot Distribution of Discrete Numeric Variable

Usage

discretePlot(
  x,
  by,
  scale = c("frequency", "percent"),
  xlab = deparse(substitute(x)),
  ylab = scale,
  main = "",
  xlim = NULL,
  ylim = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

x	a numeric variable.
by	optionally a factor (or character or logical variable) by which to classify x.
scale	either "frequency" (the default) or "percent".
xlab	optional character string to label the horizontal axis.
ylab	optional character string to label the vertical axis.
main	optional main label for the plot (ignored if the by argument is specified).
xlim	two-element numeric vectors specifying the range of the x axes; if not specified, will be determined from the data.
ylim	two-element numeric vectors specifying the range of the y axes; if not specified, will be determined from the data; the lower limit of the y-axis should normally be 0 and a warning will be printed if it isn't.
...	other arguments to be passed to plot.

Details

Plot the distribution of a discrete numeric variable, optionally classified by a factor.

If the by argument is specified, then one plot is produced for each level of by; these are arranged vertically and all use the same scale for the horizontal and vertical axes.

Value

Returns NULL invisibly.

Author(s)

John Fox

See Also

Hist, Dotplot.

Examples

data(mtcars)
mtcars$cyl <- factor(mtcars$cyl)
with(mtcars, discretePlot(carb))
with(mtcars, discretePlot(carb, scale="percent"))
with(mtcars, discretePlot(carb, by=cyl))

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