barchart: Bar charts

In TRSbook: Functions and Datasets to Accompany the Book "The R Software: Fundamentals of Programming and Statistical Analysis"

Description

Pretty bar charts

Usage

barchart(x, col, my.title, pareto = FALSE, freq.cumul = FALSE, family = "Courier")

Arguments

x	qualitative variable
col	vector of characters for the color of each modality
my.title	character. Title of the plot
pareto	logical. TRUE for a Pareto diagram. Default os FALSE
freq.cumul	logical. TRUE to add a curve of cumulative frequencies. By default freq.cumul is FALSE
family	font family for the title. Default is "Courier". Another choice can be, e.g., "HersheyScript"

Value

A plot

Author(s)

Lafaye de Micheaux Pierre <[e-mail]>, Remy Drouilhet <[e-mail]>, Liquet Benoit <[e-mail]>

References

Chapter 11 (Descriptive Statistics) from the book: The R Software, Fundamentals of Programming and Statistical Analysis

See Also

barplot

Examples

data(NUTRIELDERLY)
attach(NUTRIELDERLY)
fat <- as.factor(fat)
col <- c("yellow","yellow2","sandybrown","orange",
   "darkolivegreen","green","olivedrab2","green4")
barchart(fat,col,pareto=TRUE)
detach(NUTRIELDERLY)

Example output

Loading required package: xtable
Loading required package: RColorBrewer
Loading required package: gdata
gdata: read.xls support for 'XLS' (Excel 97-2004) files ENABLED.

gdata: read.xls support for 'XLSX' (Excel 2007+) files ENABLED.

Attaching package: 'gdata'

The following object is masked from 'package:stats':

    nobs

The following object is masked from 'package:utils':

    object.size

The following object is masked from 'package:base':

    startsWith

Loading required package: IndependenceTests

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