I'm trying to use ggplot to create a bar plot (or histogram) to mirror the freq
function from the descr
package (where each discrete value in the variable gets its own column in the frequency plot, with the x-ais ticks centered around each value), but I'm having some trouble getting this to work.
Here is what I'm trying to create (but using ggplot so I can use its nice graphics):
library(ggplot2)
library(descr)
variable <- c(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7)
df <- data.frame(variable)
freq(df$variable)
And here is my trying (and failing) to do the same in ggplot:
histo.variable <- ggplot(df, aes(x = variable)) + # create histogram
geom_bar(stat = "bin") +
xlab("Variable Value") +
ylab("Count") +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = scales::pretty_breaks(n = 10))
histo.variable
As you can see, the bars are not centered on the tick marks. (Additionally, it'd be great to get rid of the little half-lines in between the bars.)
Thanks to anyone who can help!
Maybe like this:
ggplot(df, aes(x = variable)) +
geom_histogram(aes(y = ..density..),
binwidth = 1,
colour = "blue", fill = "lightblue")