Sorry, but I am very new using R and have come up with a bit of an issue. I'm trying to make a histogram for all that have gender as male, and their answer to column s22 is either 2 or 4. The column s22 can be any number between 1 and 5.
my code is currently hist(firstdata$second)[(firstdata$gender == "male")&(firstdata$s22 == 2)|(firstdata$s22 == 4)]
The issue with this is that the histogram shows a frequency of individuals higher than the total amount of males (there are 40 males total, 92 individuals, and the histogram appears to show all individuals)
Thanks for the help!
(I would comment instead but I don't have the reputation yet!)
I would approach this by first creating an object of that subset of data and then plotting it.
E.g. using the which() function
male_2_4 <- firstdata[which(firstdata$gender == "male" & (firstdata$s22 == 2 | firstdata$s22 == 4),]
hist(male_2_4$second)
Remember to specify if you want the or (|) to be just between either s22 = 2 or s22 = 4, then there needs to be brackets around those two arguments, otherwise it will not be separate from the firstdata$gender == "male" argument.
If you're new to using which() make sure you remember to add the last comma inside the square bracket, as you're subsetting by row rather than column.