Stacked histograms like in flow cytometry

Question

I\'m trying to use ggplot or base R to produce something like the following:

Answer 1

require(ggplot2)
require(plyr)

my.data <- as.data.frame(rbind( cbind( rnorm(1e3), 1) , cbind(     rnorm(1e3)+2, 2), cbind( rnorm(1e3)+3, 3), cbind( rnorm(1e3)+4, 4)))
my.data$V2=as.factor(my.data$V2)

calculate the density depending on V2

res <- dlply(my.data, .(V2), function(x) density(x$V1))
dd <- ldply(res, function(z){
  data.frame(Values = z[["x"]], 
             V1_density = z[["y"]],
             V1_count = z[["y"]]*z[["n"]])
})

add an offset depending on V2

dd$offest=-as.numeric(dd$V2)*0.2 # adapt the 0.2 value as you need
dd$V1_density_offest=dd$V1_density+dd$offest

and plot

ggplot(dd, aes(Values, V1_density_offest, color=V2)) + 
  geom_line()+
  geom_ribbon(aes(Values, ymin=offest,ymax=V1_density_offest,     fill=V2),alpha=0.3)+
  scale_y_continuous(breaks=NULL)