The way to guarantee a specific number of panels in the histogram, say n, is to specify n+1 breaks which cover the range of the data. As far as I know this is the only way.
Bill Venables. -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:17 AM To: R help Subject: [R] setting breaks in hist Dear R People: Is there a way to "guarantee" that breaks=n will give you exactly n breaks, please? I'm fairly certain that the answer is "no", but thought I'd check. Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
