[R] y axis on hist

[Daniel E. Ho]

From: "Bud Gibson" <fpgibson at umich.edu>
> The y axis on the hist function seems to set its limits oddly.
> sometimes, it covers the full range of the data and sometimes it stops
> one major tick short.  I have had this behavior with a variety of data
> sets, and it can easily be reproduced by just running the following
> several times:
>
> hist(rnorm(100000))
>
> I have tried explicitly setting ylim to the range of values produced by
> rnorm (taking care to set some variable to rnorm(100000) and then
> graphing that), and I still get the y axis plotting behvior I just
> described.

I'm not sure I understand the problem correctly.  Doesn't the following seem
to correct the y-axis problem?

hist(rnorm(100000),ylim=c(0,25000))

Dan
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