On 03/23/2014 03:15 AM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
R-helpers:
I was wondering, given a vector of data, if there is a way to
calculate the break points based on the breaks= parameter from
histogram, but skipping all the other calculations (all I want is the
breakpoints, not the frequencies). I can, of course, simply run the
histogram and extract the break component:
mybreaks<- hist(runif(100))$breaks
But is there a faster way to do this, if this is all I want?
Hi Jonathan,
I assume that you want a function to define the number of classes rather
than the alternative methods of simply specifying the number of breaks
or the actual locations of breaks yourself. I know of three such functions:
nclass.Sturges
nclass.scott
nclass.FD
all in the grDevices package. You can call these functions directly and
then calculate the break point locations by dividing the range of the
observations into calculated number of classes:
x<-1:24
ncls<-nclasses.Sturges(x)
ncls
[1] 6
# now decide whether you want right-closed intervals (the default)
# and pad the left (default) or right side
intwidth<-(max(x) - (min(x)-1))/6
breaks<-seq(min(x)-1,max(x),by=intwidth)
It is debatable whether this is better than:
hist(x,plot=FALSE)$breaks
Jim
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