Produces a histogram using R Statistics.
1.Install R-Statistics (once only) 2.Run the Winsteps analysis. 3.Plots menu 4.Click on Histogram 5.Click on the Output File containing the 1 column of numbers you want to histogram 6.Histogram Control dialog box displays
7.Choose the variables for the values 8.Make other changes (if any) - Examples of each option are shown. For more details, see hist() documentation. Try the Example value so that you can see what it does. 9.Click on 'Histogram" button 10.R Statistics launches 11.Histogram displays. |
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Histogram Control |
hist() instruction |
Meaning |
Default: |
Plotting values from: |
hist(data data is generated from a Winsteps output File. |
Input file containing columns of numbers |
DISFILE= distractor file |
data values |
hist(data$variable |
values for histogram |
column 1 in output file |
type of histogram |
freq= |
Frequency or Probability Density |
Frequency |
main title |
main= |
title above histogram |
Histogram of data$variable |
x-axis label |
xlab= |
label for x-axis |
"data$variable" |
y-axis label |
ylab= |
label for y-axis |
Frequency |
bin labels |
labels= |
counts above histogram bars |
(none) |
show axes |
axes= |
display x- and y-axis with numerical intervals |
(display) |
x-axis range |
xlim= |
range of the x-axis |
(from the data) |
y-axis range |
ylim= |
range of the y-axis |
(from the data) |
bin breaks |
breaks= |
number of bins |
(from the data) |
shading line density |
density= |
lines per inch in bars |
5 when displayed |
shading line angle |
angle= |
slope of the shading lines |
45 degrees when displayed |
Set: |
palette of colors |
Set1 |
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Number: |
RColorBrewer color in palette |
each palette has several colors starting with color number 1 |
1 - color number 1 in the palette, counting colors from the left in the picture |
bin internal color |
col= |
color inside the bin bar |
(none) |
bin border color |
border= |
color of the edge of the bin bar |
black |
Histogram |
launch R statistics: histt |
Histogram is displayed |
library(graphics) > hist( ....) |
Exit |
current dialog box setting are saved and dialog box is closed |
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Cancel |
dialog box is closed. Setting of most recent displayed Histogram are saved. |
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Reset to defaults |
all values are reset to their default values |
settings are always reset to default values when Winsteps is launched |
