[Rd] (PR#8376 inconsistency between plot(hist(...)) and hist(...)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 clausen at econ.upenn.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Andrew Clausen
> Version: 2.1.0
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux
> Submission from: (NULL) (71.242.192.73)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> When I type
>
>    hist(x, freq=F)
>
> I get a density function, as I expect.  However, if I type
>
>    plot(hist(x, freq=F))
>
> then I get the same output as if I had typed:
>
>    hist(x, freq=T)
>
> I expect that the second command should have the same semantics as the first.

And it actually does, but your usage does not.

Did you check the help page?  ?plot.histogram shows plot.histogram has a 
'freq' argument, and the correct usage is

plot(hist(x), freq=FALSE)

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