Here is a quick start. You will have to either greatly reduce the length of the names or play around with various plot or barplot options to get the x labels.
Have a look at ?plot.default and ?barplot for more information John Kane Kingston ON Canada ================================================ aa <- c("Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (childhood)", "Adiponectin levels", "Adiponectin levels", "Adiponectin levels", "Adiponectin levels", "Adiponectin levels", "Adiposity", "Adiposity", "Adiposity", "Adiposity", "Age-related macular degeneration", "Age-related macular degeneration", "Aging (time to death)", "Aging (time to event)", "Aging (time to event)", "Aging (time to event)", "Aging (time to event)", "AIDS", "AIDS", "AIDS") (xx <- table(aa)) barplot(xx) ================================================= > -----Original Message----- > From: mandecent.gu...@gmail.com > Sent: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:46:18 -0800 (PST) > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] How to sort frequency distribution table? > > Hi, > > I am working on categorical data with column as disease name(categaory). > > My input data is > [1] Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (childhood) > [2] Adiponectin levels > [3] Adiponectin levels > [4] Adiponectin levels > [5] Adiponectin levels > [6] Adiponectin levels > [7] Adiposity > [8] Adiposity > [9] Adiposity > [10] Adiposity > [11] Age-related macular degeneration > [12] Age-related macular degeneration > [13] Aging (time to death) > [14] Aging (time to event) > [15] Aging (time to event) > [16] Aging (time to event) > [17] Aging (time to event) > [18] AIDS > [19] AIDS > [20] AIDS > ..... > > > when i use table command, i get > > > [,1] > Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (childhood) 1 > Adiponectin levels > 5 > Adiposity > 4 > Age-related macular degeneration > 2 > Aging (time to death) > 1 > ...... > > But i need to sort this table by frequency and need to plot a histogram > with > lable first column (e.g. Adiposity , Age-related macular degeneration as > bar name). How can i do it? > > Regards > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-sort-frequency-distribution-table-tp4455595p4455595.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.