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Drawing histograms

Recall that histograms cut up a continuous variable into discrete bins and, by default, maps the internally calculated count variable (the number of observations in each bin) onto the y aesthetic. An internal variable called density can be accessed by using the .. notation, i.e. ..density... Plotting this variable will show the relative frequency, which is the height times the width of each bin.

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Introduction to Data Visualization with ggplot2

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Plot mpg
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  # Add a histogram layer
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