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Sometimes it's useful to plot a density curve over a histogram to help identify the distribution, or demonstrate the deviation between sample distributions and proposed population distributions:

data <- rnorm(1000)
hist(data, freq=FALSE)
curve(dnorm, add=TRUE)

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This person wondered if it was possible to add a small boxplot in a histogram, like where the legend might be.

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