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R Programming Fundamentals
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R Programming Fundamentals

by Kaelen Medeiros
September 2018
Beginner
206 pages
4h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Histogram

When you have one continuous variable, it's a good idea to use a histogram to get an idea of its distribution. The height of the bar of the histogram corresponds to the number of observations that have that value. We can create a histogram of the mpg variable in mtcars using the following code:

ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg)) + geom_histogram()

This code will throw a warning:

 'stat_bin()' using 'bins = 30'. Pick better value with 'binwidth'.  

The default number of bins is always 30, and you should always change it and find a better value for your data. The default means that it takes the range of the data (here, mpg is between 10.4 and ...

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