Question

When I create a histogram, it looks a lot like this:

set.seed(1)
x <- 1:100
y <- x + rnorm(50)
y=round(y)
hist(y)

Is there a way to make a histogram look a bit like this? I can only get a histogram with bins, which I don’t need for my plot.

I don’t want the black bins, I actually only want the blue, green and red lines. Can stackoverflow point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Put your histogram in an object, and use type=”s” to get the stepwise plot :

x <- rnorm(1000)
y <- hist(x)
plot(y$breaks,
      c(y$counts,0)
   ,type="s",col="blue")

gives :