Thanks What you have suggested of course works but I am trying to reduce the 'ugliness'.
Anybody got any other ideas? Regards Steve Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: Ivan Calandra <ivan.calan...@uni-hamburg.de> Sender: r-help-boun...@r-project.org Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:08:47 To: <r-help@r-project.org> Reply-To: ivan.calan...@uni-hamburg.de Subject: Re: [R] Help with Hist Hi, I think you should also give the upper extreme: x <- c(rnorm(80)+10, 101:110, 2001:2010) hist(x, breaks=c(0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200, 500)) Error in hist.default(x, breaks = c(0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200, 500)) : some 'x' not counted; maybe 'breaks' do not span range of 'x' hist(x, breaks=c(0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200, 500, 2100)) ## which looks horrible, but works, up to you how to cut it HTH, Ivan Le 11/15/2010 15:53, Steve Sidney a écrit : > Dear list > > I am trying to re-scale a histogram and using hist() but can not seem > to create a reduced scale where the upper values are not plotted. > > What I have is about 100 of which 80 or so are between a value of 0 > and 40 , one or two in the hundreds and an outlier around 2000. > > What I would like to do is create an x-scale that shows 5 bins between > 0-100 and then 3/4 bins between 100 and 2000 but I don't need any > resolution on the above 100 values. > > If I use breaks c(0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200, 500) R gives me an > error saying that there are values not included, which of course I > know but I wish to ignore them. > > It seems that I am missing something quite simple. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Regards > Steve > >______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Ivan CALANDRA PhD Student University of Hamburg Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum Abt. Säugetiere Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3 D-20146 Hamburg, GERMANY +49(0)40 42838 6231 ivan.calan...@uni-hamburg.de ********** http://www.for771.uni-bonn.de http://webapp5.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/mammals/eng/mitarbeiter.php ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.