histogram cells
?hist says
breaks: one of:
...
* a single number giving the number of cells for the
histogram,
...
In the last three cases the number is a suggestion only.
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Tommy E. Cathey wrote:
Why does the following code generate a Histogram of 7 cells instead of 5?
data(islands) str(hist(sqrt(islands), br = 5, col="lightblue", border="pink"))
List of 7
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at 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