[R] histogram - one bin for all values larger than a certain value

Sundar Dorai-Raj sundar.dorai-raj at pdf.com
Mon Sep 26 16:15:20 CEST 2005



Florian Defregger wrote:
> Dear all,
> I wonder if I can put together a histogram where one bin contains all the 
> values that are larger than a certain specified value.
> 
> Example:
> I have values ranging from 0 to 40 and I want 10 bins from 0 to 10, i.e. for 
> the intervals [0,1), [1,2) , ..., [9,10). And then I want one last bin which 
> contains all the values larger than 10, i.e. for the interval [10, 40).
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian
> 

Hi, Florian,

See the "breaks" argument in ?hist.

x <- sample(1:40, 1000, replace = TRUE)
hist(x, breaks = c(0:10, 40))

Is this what you intended?

--sundar




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