R: Histograms for Variables in a Data Frame

hist.data.frame {Hmisc} | R Documentation

## Histograms for Variables in a Data Frame

### Description

This functions tries to compute the maximum number of histograms that will fit on one page, then it draws a matrix of histograms. If there are more qualifying variables than will fit on a page, the function waits for a mouse click before drawing the next page.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
    hist(x, n.unique = 3, nclass = "compute",
                    na.big = FALSE, rugs = FALSE, freq=TRUE, mtitl = FALSE, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | a data frame
`n.unique` | minimum number of unique values a variable must have before a histogram is drawn
`nclass` | number of bins. Default is max(2,trunc(min(n/10,25*log(n,10))/2)), where n is the number of non-missing values for a variable.
`na.big` | set to `TRUE` to draw the number of missing values on the top of the histogram in addition to in a subtitle. In the subtitle, n is the number of non-missing values and m is the number of missing values
`rugs` | set to `TRUE` to add rug plots at the top of each histogram
`freq` | see `hist`. Default is to show frequencies.
`mtitl` | set to a character string to set aside extra outside top margin and to use the string for an overall title
`...` | arguments passed to `scat1d`

### Value

the number of pages drawn

### Author(s)

Frank E Harrell Jr

### See Also

`hist`, `scat1d`

### Examples

    d <- data.frame(a=runif(200), b=rnorm(200),
                    w=factor(sample(c('green','red','blue'), 200, TRUE)))
    hist.data.frame(d)   # in R, just say hist(d)

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