[R] sample function

David Scott d.scott at auckland.ac.nz
Fri Mar 11 04:17:49 CET 2005


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Martin C. Martin wrote:

> "hist" is lumping things together.
>
> Try:
> sum(temp == 0)
>
> compare to the height of the left most bar.
>
> Is this a bug in hist?
>
No, hist is the wrong thing to use to display this data.

Try

temp <-sample(0:12, 2000, replace=T,prob=(rep(1/13,13)))
barplot(table(temp))

David Scott
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