?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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help