Message-ID: <4B411637.1090109@ucalgary.ca>
Date: 2010-01-03T22:12:07Z
From: Peter Ehlers
Subject: Thin bars in R hist !!??
In-Reply-To: <1262553925046-997908.post@n4.nabble.com>
Just seting breaks=2 should fix your 'issue'.
But what could such a histogram possibly tell anyone?
Unless this is a pathological case in a more elaborate
analysis, I can't see any sense in what you're doing.
-Peter Ehlers
Whalojazz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to plot a histogram with my dataset that has 68 elements, 67 of
> which are zero and the last one is 18. It can be reproduced as follows:
>
> x<-array(0, dim=(68))
> x[1] = 18
> I am trying to plot its histogram using:
>
> hist(x, breaks=10, xlim=c(0, 100), axes=F)
> axis(2, at=seq(0, 70, 5)) # for the y-axis
> axis(1, at=seq(0, 100, 10)) # for the x-axis
>
> As you would also see if you reproduced the plot, the bars become really
> thin. I would very much appreciate any help on fixing this issue. Thanks so
> much in advance!
--
Peter Ehlers
University of Calgary
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