squall44 wrote: > Well, that was the first thing I tried. But the help only gives you the > commands and does not explain how to use it (I am a newbe). How do I use the > argument 'breaks'? > I tried: > #--- > x = c(1, 2, 3, 3.5, 4.5, 5, 5.5) > breaks=c(1, 1, 0.5, 1, 0.5, 0.5) > > hist(x, > breaks= breaks, > xlim=c(0,7), > ylim=c(0,5)) > #--- > ...which didn't work.
Well, "breaks" means breaks, not the widths of the bins, hence hist(youData, breaks = c(1, 2, 3, 3.5, 4.5, 5, 5.5)) is what you want, but that is meaningsless since you have not yet given any data. Uwe Ligges > I tried many other variations, but I am a beginner. If anyone can give me a > clue, I'd be very thankful. > Tobias > > > > Uwe Ligges wrote: >> >> >> squall44 wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I wanted to create a histogram, but somehow I got stuck... >>> >>> The interval limits are: x = 1, 2, 3, 3.5, 4.5, 5, 5.5 >>> The interval widths are therefore: 1, 1, 0.5, 1, 0.5, 0.5 >> >> Please read the help page more carefully! See ?hist and its argument >> "breaks". >> >> Uwe Ligges >> >>> Nothing I tried worked... Can anyone help me please? >>> Thanks >>> Tobias >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. >> >> > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.