I tried that, but for some reason the scale is wrong? So the density doesn't show up on the histogram. Also, I'd prefer not to use the density because I don't want the line plot to begin at a value of 0. I'm trying to emulate an exponential decay.
Thanks for the help. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: July 5, 2008 8:43 PM > To: Edwin Lei > Subject: Re: [R] trying to superimpose a line plot onto a histogram > > > hi: you can do the same thing as below but just replace density(x) with > whatever you want to plot ? > > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Edwin Lei wrote: > > > Thanks for the quick response. But the points I'm trying to > > superimpose > > isn't exactly the density of the data. Is there any other way to do > > it? > > > > > > From: milton ruser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 5, 2008 > > 6:56 AM > > To: Edwin Lei > > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: Re: [R] trying to superimpose a line plot onto a histogram > > > > > > How about the answer by Demitris? > > > > > > Regards a lot, > > > > > > miltinho > > > > ---- > > > > From: Dimitris Rizopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Jun 16, 2008 4:05 AM > > Subject: Re: [R] Superimposing Line over Histogram in Density Plot > > To: Gundala Viswanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > try something like this: > > > > x <- rnorm(200) > > hist(x, col = "blue", freq = FALSE) > > lines(density(x), col = "red", lwd = 2) > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/5/08, Edwin Lei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to superimpose a line plot onto a histogram but I'm not > > having > > any luck. I've attached the dataset. What I did was: > > > >> hist(data,freq=F) > > > > Now I'm trying to superimpose the following points with a line > > connecting > > them onto the histogram: > > > > x y > > 100 0.535665393824959 > > 200 0.212744329736556 > > 300 0.0844933242968584 > > 400 0.0335572838043417 > > 500 0.0133275771274986 > > 600 0.00529316714442912 > > 700 0.0021022289461042 > > 800 0.000834919136549392 > > 900 0.000331595645597124 > > 1000 0.000131696193518099 > > 1100 5.2304327929049e-05 > > 1200 2.07731343406939e-05 > > > > Basically, the x values correspond to the break points in the > > histogram. > > Next I used the command > > > >> points(x,y,type="l") > > > > But for some reason, the line plot is shifted to the right and > doesn't > > line > > up with the histogram. > > > > Thanks for the help! > > > > Edwin Lei > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.