Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0106262043270.2426-100000@toucan.stats>
Date: 2001-06-26T19:46:25Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: breaks in hist()
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010626140210.009603b0@mail.vt.edu>
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?
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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