Basic plots in R, plot, boxplot and hist

There is tens of way to plot a set in R. Today I will just present you 3 of them:

• plot
• boxplot
• hist

To simply plot a vector of values, you can simply use the function plot. Try this:

# Get some data to plot
data(iris)
plot(iris$Sepal.Length)

To have a better idea of the distribution the function boxplot is really useful:

# one set
boxplot(iris$Sepal.Length)
# 2 sets
boxplot(data.frame(iris$Sepal.Length, iris$Sepal.Width))

Finally if you need more details on the distribution you will use hist:

hist(iris$Sepal.Length)