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What is the best plot to show a distribution in R?

I'm looking to plot the distribution of age across the different trees in the locality data.

I did the following but the graph isn't representative :

ggplot(tree_data, aes(x = Age.Life, fill = Tree)) + 
geom_density(alpha=.5) + 
scale_fill_brewer(palette="Set1")
Solution

  • Try the geom_boxplot() distribution:

    ggplot(iris, aes(x = Petal.Length, fill=Species)) + 
  geom_boxplot() + 
  scale_fill_brewer(palette="Set1")

    enter image description here

    Or geom_histogram() As @akrun suggests. I've added combined with facet_grid().

    ggplot(iris, aes(x = Petal.Length, y=Species, fill=Species)) + 
  geom_histogram() + 
  scale_fill_brewer(palette="Set1")+
  facet_grid("Species")

    enter image description here

    And the popular geom_violin() plot

    ggplot(iris, aes(x = Petal.Length, y=Species, fill=Species)) + 
  geom_violin() + 
  scale_fill_brewer(palette="Set1")

    enter image description here