[R] Including percentage values inside columns of a histogram

Bert Gunter bgunter@4567 @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Tue Aug 17 02:49:16 CEST 2021


I may well misunderstand, but proffered solutions seem more complicated
than necessary.
Note that the return of hist() can be saved as a list of class "histogram"
and then plotted with  plot.histogram(), which already has a "labels"
argument that seems to be what you want. A simple example is"

dat <- runif(50, 0, 10)
myhist <- hist(dat, freq = TRUE, breaks ="Sturges")

plot(myhist, col = "darkgray",
     labels = as.character(round(myhist$density*100,1) ),
     ylim = c(0, 1.1*max(myhist$counts)))
## note that this is plot.histogram because myhist has class "histogram"

Note that I expanded the y axis a bit to be sure to include the labels. You
can, of course, plot your separate years as Rui has indicated or via e.g.
?layout.

Apologies if I have misunderstood. Just ignore this in that case.
Otherwise, I leave it to you to fill in details.

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 4:14 PM Paul Bernal <paulbernal07 using gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Jim,
>
> Thank you so much for your kind reply. Yes, this is what I am looking for,
> however, can´t see clearly how the bars correspond to the bins in the
> x-axis. Maybe there is a way to align the amounts so that they match the
> columns, sorry if I sound picky, but just want to learn if there is a way
> to accomplish this.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paul
>
> El lun, 16 ago 2021 a las 17:57, Jim Lemon (<drjimlemon using gmail.com>)
> escribió:
>
> > Hi Paul,
> > I just worked out your first request:
> >
> > datasetregs<-<-structure(list(Date = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
> > 2L,
> > 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
> > 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
> > 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L,
> > 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L,
> > 3L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("AF 2017", "AF 2020", "AF 2021"), class =
> > "factor"),
> >     Amount = c(40100, 101100, 35000, 40100, 15000, 45100, 40200,
> >     15000, 35000, 35100, 20300, 40100, 15000, 67100, 17100, 15000,
> >     15000, 50100, 35100, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000,
> >     15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000,
> >     15000, 15000, 20100, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000,
> >     16600, 15000, 15000, 15700, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000,
> >     15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 20200, 21400, 25100, 15000, 15000,
> >     15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 25600, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000,
> >     15000, 15000, 15000, 15000)), row.names = c(NA, -74L), class =
> > "data.frame")
> > histval<-with(datasetregs, hist(Amount, groups=Date, scale="frequency",
> >  breaks="Sturges", col="darkgray"))
> > library(plotrix)
> > histpcts<-paste0(round(100*histval$counts/sum(histval$counts),1),"%")
> > barlabels(histval$mids,histval$counts,histpcts)
> >
> > I think that's what you asked for:
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 8:44 AM Paul Bernal <paulbernal07 using gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > This is way better, now, how could I put the frequency labels in the
> > > columns as a percentage, instead of presenting them as counts?
> > >
> > > Thank you so much.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > El lun, 16 ago 2021 a las 17:33, Rui Barradas (<ruipbarradas using sapo.pt>)
> > > escribió:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > You forgot to cc the list.
> > > >
> > > > Here are two ways, both of them apply hist() and text() to Amount
> split
> > > > by Date. The return value of hist is saved because it's a list with
> > > > members the histogram's bars midpoints and the counts. Those are used
> > to
> > > > know where to put the text labels.
> > > > A vector lbls is created to get rid of counts of zero.
> > > >
> > > > The main difference between the two ways is the histogram's titles.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > old_par <- par(mfrow = c(1, 3))
> > > > h_list <- with(datasetregs, tapply(Amount, Date, function(x){
> > > >    h <- hist(x)
> > > >    lbls <- ifelse(h$counts == 0, NA_integer_, h$counts)
> > > >    text(h$mids, h$counts/2, labels = lbls)
> > > > }))
> > > > par(old_par)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > old_par <- par(mfrow = c(1, 3))
> > > > sp <- split(datasetregs, datasetregs$Date)
> > > > h_list <- lapply(seq_along(sp), function(i){
> > > >    hist_title <- paste("Histogram of", names(sp)[i])
> > > >    h <- hist(sp[[i]]$Amount, main = hist_title)
> > > >    lbls <- ifelse(h$counts == 0, NA_integer_, h$counts)
> > > >    text(h$mids, h$counts/2, labels = lbls)
> > > > })
> > > > par(old_par)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hope this helps,
> > > >
> > > > Rui Barradas
> > > >
> > > > Às 23:16 de 16/08/21, Paul Bernal escreveu:
> > > > > Dear Rui,
> > > > >
> > > > > The hist() function comes from the graphics package, from what I
> > could
> > > > > see. The thing is that I want to divide the Amount column into
> > several
> > > > > bins and then generate three different histograms, one for each AF
> > > > > period (AF refers to fiscal years). As you can see, the data
> contains
> > > > > three fiscal years (2017, 2020 and 2021). I want to see the
> > percentage
> > > > > of cases that fall into different amount categories, from 15,000
> and
> > > > > below, 16,000 to 17,000, from 18,000 to 19,000, and so on.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for your kind help.
> > > > >
> > > > > Paul
> > > > >
> > > > > El lun, 16 ago 2021 a las 17:07, Rui Barradas (<
> ruipbarradas using sapo.pt
> > > > > <mailto:ruipbarradas using sapo.pt>>) escribió:
> > > > >
> > > > >     Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > >     The function Hist comes from what package?
> > > > >
> > > > >     Are you sure you don't want a bar plot?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >     agg <- aggregate(Amount ~ Date, datasetregs, sum)
> > > > >     bp <- barplot(Amount ~ Date, agg)
> > > > >     with(agg, text(bp, Amount/2, labels = Amount))
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >     Hope this helps,
> > > > >
> > > > >     Rui Barradas
> > > > >
> > > > >     Às 22:54 de 16/08/21, Paul Bernal escreveu:
> > > > >      > Hello everyone,
> > > > >      >
> > > > >      > I am currently working with R version 4.1.0 and I am trying
> to
> > > > >     include
> > > > >      > (inside the columns of the histogram), the percentage
> > > > >     distribution and I
> > > > >      > want to generate three histograms, one for each fiscal year
> > (in
> > > > >     the Date
> > > > >      > column, there are three fiscal year AF 2017, AF 2020 and AF
> > > > >     2021). However,
> > > > >      > I can´t seem to accomplish this.
> > > > >      >
> > > > >      > Here is my data:
> > > > >      >
> > > > >      > structure(list(Date = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
> 2L,
> > > > >      > 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
> > 2L,
> > > > >      > 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
> > 2L,
> > > > >      > 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L,
> > 3L,
> > > > >      > 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L,
> > 3L,
> > > > >      > 3L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("AF 2017", "AF 2020", "AF 2021"),
> > class =
> > > > >      > "factor"),
> > > > >      >      Amount = c(40100, 101100, 35000, 40100, 15000, 45100,
> > 40200,
> > > > >      >      15000, 35000, 35100, 20300, 40100, 15000, 67100, 17100,
> > > > 15000,
> > > > >      >      15000, 50100, 35100, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000,
> > > > 15000,
> > > > >      >      15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000,
> > > > 15000,
> > > > >      >      15000, 15000, 20100, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000,
> > > > 15000,
> > > > >      >      16600, 15000, 15000, 15700, 15000, 15000, 15000, 15000,
> > > > 15000,
> > > > >      >      15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 20200, 21400, 25100, 15000,
> > > > 15000,
> > > > >      >      15000, 15000, 15000, 15000, 25600, 15000, 15000, 15000,
> > > > 15000,
> > > > >      >      15000, 15000, 15000, 15000)), row.names = c(NA, -74L),
> > class
> > > > =
> > > > >      > "data.frame")
> > > > >      >
> > > > >      > I would like to modify the following script:
> > > > >      >
> > > > >      >> with(datasetregs, Hist(Amount, groups=Date,
> > scale="frequency",
> > > > >      > +   breaks="Sturges", col="darkgray"))
> > > > >      >
> > > > >      > #The only thing missing here are the percentages
> > corresponding to
> > > > >     each bin
> > > > >      > (I would like to see the percentages inside each column, or
> on
> > > > >     top outside
> > > > >      > if possible)
> > > > >      >
> > > > >      > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> > > > >      >
> > > > >      > Best regards,
> > > > >      >
> > > > >      > Paul.
> > > > >      >
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