Plotting a grid behind data, not in front in R

Question

I like to produce my own grid lines when plotting so I can control tick marks, etc. and I am struggling with this with the \'hist\' plotting routine.

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Answer 1

The base graphics solution suggested by @joran is fine. Alternatives:

d <- data.frame(x=rnorm(1000))    

library(lattice)
histogram(~x,data=d,panel=function(...) {
     panel.grid(...)
     panel.histogram(...) } 
)

Or:

library(ggplot2)
qplot(x,data=d,geom="histogram",binwidth=0.1)+theme_bw()+
   labs(x="Wind speed", y="Frequency")

(But of course you will have to learn all the details of adjusting labels, titles, etc. ... I'm not actually sure how to do titles in ggplot ...)