library(readr) library(dplyr) # # Load data # players <- read_csv("data/nba-players-2013-14.csv") # # Histogram # # Default histogram par(las = 1) hist(players$Ht_inches, xlab="inches", main="NBA Player Heights") # Smaller breaks hist(players$Ht_inches, breaks=seq(65, 90, 1), xlab="inches", main="NBA Player Heights") # Vary bin sizes par(mfrow=c(1,3), mar=c(5,3,3,3)) hist(players$Ht_inches, breaks=seq(65, 90, 1), xlab="inches", main="One-inch bins") hist(players$Ht_inches, breaks=seq(65, 90, 3), xlab="inches", main="Three-inch bins") hist(players$Ht_inches, breaks=seq(65, 90, 6), xlab="inches", main="Six-inch bins") # # Comparison between positions # ppos <- unique(players$POS) par(mfrow=c(5,1), mar=c(2,3,3,2), oma=c(2,2,2,2)) for (pos in ppos) { curr <- players %>% filter(POS == pos) hist(curr$Ht_inches, breaks=seq(65, 90, 1), xlab="inches", main=paste0(pos, " Heights")) } ppos2 <- c("G", "G/F", "F", "F/C", "C") par(mfrow=c(5,1)) for (pos in ppos2) { curr <- players %>% filter(POS == pos) curr_mean <- mean(curr$Ht_inches) hist(curr$Ht_inches, breaks=seq(65, 90, 1), border = "white", xlab="inches", main=paste0(pos, " Heights")) abline(v = curr_mean, col = "blue", lwd = 2) }