[R] What is the easiest way to turn a dataframe into a barplot?

William Dunlap wdunlap at tibco.com
Thu May 12 19:31:42 CEST 2016


Does this do what you want?

z <- data.frame(Name=c("One","Three","Twelve","Eleven"), Count=c(1,3,12,11))
with(z, barplot(Count, names=Name, horiz=TRUE))
with(z, barplot(Count, names=Name, horiz=TRUE, las=1))


Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:19 AM, yoursurrogategod at gmail.com <
yoursurrogategod at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, I can't post my code since it's on a work computer.
>
> But basically, I have a dataframe that has two columns, one is a string
> and the other is an integer.  I want to turn this into a vertival barplot
> where on the x-axis I have the string in the first columb and then the plot
> will display the integer count.
>
> I have found many examples online and most of those matched either odd
> edge cases or putting the data into a format that strips out some of the
> data and I can't use it later.
>
> This should be a breeze, what am I missing?
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