[R] Histogram not plotting correct breaks

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Tue Apr 27 11:10:00 CEST 2010



On 27.04.2010 07:26, Tal Galili wrote:
> trying setting
> br = 40
> inside the hist, and check if that helps...
> (breaks won't do it for you either way)
>
> Tal


No, the main problem is that a hist()ogram is used rather than a 
barplot() which should be used....

Uwe Ligges





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> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:04 AM, burgundy<sauburn at yahoo.com>  wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using the hist function to plot the frequency of 21 variables, but it
>> keeps starting the x-axis from 0 and adding variables 1 and 2 together (all
>> other vairables have the correct frequencies). I suspect it adds 1 and 2
>> together so that 0 can fit in with demarcations at intervals of 5. Using
>> "xlim=c(1,21)" to specify that i don't want to include 0 and using the
>> "breaks" command to specify 21 breaks doesn't help. Any advice?
>> Thank you!!
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