On 5/20/08, John Gant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone help me with a misunderstanding I'm having with hist? I > expected, from the example below, that the number of bins would always be 10 > and the length of the counts array the same. According to the help section > 'breaks' can be a integer indicating the number of bins.
The help actually says: breaks: one of: * a vector giving the breakpoints between histogram cells, * a single number giving the number of cells for the histogram, * a character string naming an algorithm to compute the number of cells (see 'Details'), * a function to compute the number of cells. In the last three cases the number is a suggestion only. The last sentence explains your observation. BTW, this was recently discussed: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-May/162492.html -Deepayan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.