breaks in hist()
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Maarten van Gelder wrote:
Sorry, I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I run version 1.2.3 on NT4.0
Thanks: hist has been changed several times recently.
I was using the hist() function to create a frequency table of some network traffic data. The range in values is rather large, from 0 till just under 10e12. Calling hist(x, breaks=c(0,1000,1e6,1e9,1e12),plot=F,freq=T) causes hist() to return : $breaks [1] -1.0000e+05 1.0100e+05 1.1000e+06 1.0001e+09 1.0000e+12 Is this recalculation of the breaks by hist() intended?
Yes. You have got caught by the following:
fuzz <- if (right)
c(if (include.lowest) -diddle else diddle, rep(diddle, length(breaks) - 1))
else c(rep(-diddle, length(breaks) - 1), if (include.lowest) diddle else -diddle)
breaks <- breaks + fuzz
Don't you want to use log10 scale?
or just table(cut(x,breaks=c(0,1000,1e6,1e9,1e12))) Basically, just don't expect hist() to do sensible things with things that cannot sensibly be plotted. (Your first column would have a width of one billionth of the total scale, whereas the last one takes up 99.9% of the total!)
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