weird breaks in hist (PR#2431)
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Reinhold Koch wrote:
Thanks for the details of this feature, I wanted all values been treated equally. I now achieved this through hist(1:4, br=0:4,include.lowest=F) quote:
hist(1:4) always merges up the first two columns,
Why is that wierd? You requested three bins and that's what you got. (If you didn't know you had done that, please read the help page.)
In the help pages I could not find this; the default bin number algorithm nclass.Sturges gives for 1:3 3 bins as a result, but hist(1:3) draws 4.
It says
In the last three cases the number is a suggestion only.
so what about that sentence do you fail to comprehend?
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595