[R] draw categorical histogram

[Andrew Miles]

Try:

plot (myCatVariable)

Andrew Miles
Department of Sociology
Duke University

On Dec 1, 2010, at 2:51 PM, phoebe kong wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can someone tell me how to draw a histogram for the following summary?
>
> Richard   Minnie  Albert  Helen  Joe  Kingston
>        12        33       56       67    15           66
>
> The summary tell that Richard has occurrence 12, Minnie has  
> occurrence 33,
> and so on. I would like to view this summary in a histogram.
>
> I want the X-axis be the person name (Richard, Minnie, ....), Y-axis  
> be the
> frequency (12, 33....).
> How can I make the histogram has 6 bars, each bar was named as  
> Richard,
> Minnie, ... ,  Kingston?
>
> Thanks,
> Phoebe
>
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