Welcome to the histogram section of the R graph gallery. If you want to know more about this kind of chart, visit data-to-viz.com. If you're looking for a simple way to implement it in R, pick an example below.
Histograms can be built with ggplot2
thanks to the geom_histogram()
function. It requires only 1 numeric variable as input. This function automatically cut the variable in bins and count the number of data point per bin. Remember to try different bin size using the binwidth
argument.
Of course it is possible to build high quality histograms without ggplot2
or the tidyverse
. Here are a few examples illustrating how to proceed.