Make Frequency Histogram for Factor Variables

Question

I am very new to R, so I apologize for such a basic question. I spent an hour googling this issue, but couldn\'t find a solution.

Say I have some categorical data in

Answer 1

Data as factor can be used as input to the plot function.

An answer to a similar question has been given here: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-December/261873.html

 x=sample(c("Richard", "Minnie", "Albert", "Helen", "Joe", "Kingston"),  
 50, replace=T)
 x=as.factor(x)
 plot(x)