I've binned some data and currently have a dataframe that consists of two columns, one that specifies a bin range and another that specifies the frequency like this:-
> head(data)
binRange Frequency
1 (0,0.025] 88
2 (0.025,0.05] 72
3 (0.05,0.075] 92
4 (0.075,0.1] 38
5 (0.1,0.125] 20
6 (0.125,0.15] 16
I want to plot a histogram and density plot using this but I can't seem to find a way of doing so without having to generate new bins etc. Using this solution here I tried to do the following:-
p <- ggplot(data, aes(x= binRange, y=Frequency)) + geom_histogram(stat="identity")
but it crashes. Anyone know of how to deal with this?
Thank you
the problem is that ggplot doesnt understand the data the way you input it, you need to reshape it like so (I am not a regex-master, so surely there are better ways to do is):
df <- read.table(header = TRUE, text = "
binRange Frequency
1 (0,0.025] 88
2 (0.025,0.05] 72
3 (0.05,0.075] 92
4 (0.075,0.1] 38
5 (0.1,0.125] 20
6 (0.125,0.15] 16")
library(stringr)
library(splitstackshape)
library(ggplot2)
# extract the numbers out,
df$binRange <- str_extract(df$binRange, "[0-9].*[0-9]+")
# split the data using the , into to columns:
# one for the start-point and one for the end-point
df <- cSplit(df, "binRange")
# plot it, you actually dont need the second column
ggplot(df, aes(x = binRange_1, y = Frequency, width = 0.025)) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity", breaks=seq(0,0.125, by=0.025))
or if you don't want the data to be interpreted numerically, you can just simply do the following:
df <- read.table(header = TRUE, text = "
binRange Frequency
1 (0,0.025] 88
2 (0.025,0.05] 72
3 (0.05,0.075] 92
4 (0.075,0.1] 38
5 (0.1,0.125] 20
6 (0.125,0.15] 16")
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(df, aes(x = binRange, y = Frequency)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity")
you won't be able to plot a density-plot with your data, given its not continous but rather categorical, thats why I actually prefer the second way of showing it,