How do I create a histogram that shows the distribution of 2 variables with the same x-axis variable in the same graph?
Thank you
How do I create a histogram that shows the distribution of 2 variables with the same x-axis variable in the same graph?
Thank you
The simplest way is to use ggplot2. The easiest in that case is to store both distributions in a single data frame (or tibble).
library(tidyverse) #includes ggplot2 and tibble-manipulating functions
# example data
a <- rnorm(100, 7)
b <- rnorm(200, 9)
# gather the data in a tibble
dta <- tibble(group = rep(c("a", "b"), c(100, 200)),
values = c(a, b))
ggplot(dta) +
geom_histogram(aes(x = values, fill = group))
The trick to overlaying them is to use transparency (alpha
), and to specify the position
(the default is 'stack', which is probably not what you want).
ggplot(dta) +
geom_histogram(aes(x = values, fill = group),
alpha = .5, position = "identity", bins = 30) +
theme_classic() +
scale_fill_brewer(type="qual", palette="Set1")
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