[R] lattice: histogram of factor variable

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On 11/10/06, Albrecht, Dr. Stefan (AZ Private Equity Partner)
<stefan.albrecht at apep.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am encountering a problem with lattice in the current version 0.14-13
> with R version 2.4.0 on a Windows XP system.
> For example,
>
> histogram(~voice.part, singer)
>
> is not labeling the x labels according to the factor levels of
> voice.part, which it should do (and has done in former versions of
> lattice, as far as I remember).

I will fix that, but you shouldn't really be using histograms for
factors. Use barchart instead, e.g.

barchart(table(voice.part) ~ levels(voice.part), singer, origin = 0)

-Deepayan

> In addition, I get the warnings
> Warning messages:
> 1: arguments 'include.lowest', 'right' are not made use of in:
> hist.default(x, breaks = breaks, plot = FALSE, include.lowest =
> include.lowest,
> 2: arguments 'include.lowest', 'right' are not made use of in:
> hist.default(x, breaks = breaks, plot = FALSE, include.lowest =
> include.lowest,
> >
>
> which are a bit annoying, but (hopefully) not a real problem.
>
> Does anybody have a simple help (for the x labels)?
>
> Many thanks and best regards,
>
> Stefan
>
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