[R] Violin plot for discrete variables.

[Witold Eryk Wolski]

Dear Rgurus,

To my knowledge the best way to visualize the distribution of a discrete 
variable X is
plot(table(X))

The problem which I have is the following. I have to discrete variables 
X and Y which distribution I would like to compare. To overlay the 
distribution of Y with lines(table(Y)) gives not satisfying results. 
This is the same in case of using density or histogram.

Hence, I am wondering if there is a equivalent of the vioplot function 
(package vioplot) for discrete variables
which starts with a boxplot and than adds a rotated plot(table()) plot 
to each side of the box plot.

Maybee I should ask it first: Does such a plot make any sense? If not 
are there better solutions?

cheers
Eryk.


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