R-beta: wish: hist() returning breaks and counts

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

> 
> >>>>> Albrecht Gebhardt <agebhard at zidsrv.sci.uni-klu.ac.at> writes:
> 
>     Albrecht> would it be possible to change the hist() function in future
>     Albrecht> R Versions to accept a "plot=F" parameter (like hist() in S
>     Albrecht> it should return a list with "breaks" and "counts" in this
>     Albrecht> case). This change should be very simple.
> 
> it _was_ simple, and has been in the current sources for a while now.
> You'll see it in version 0.60 which should be released `real soon now'.
> 
> > hist(rnorm(50), plot=F)
> $breaks
> [1] -3 -2 -1  0  1  2  3
> 
> $counts
> [1]  1 11 12 20  5  1

Martin: Wouldn't it be better to return

invisible(list(breaks = breaks, counts = counts))

in the plot=T case? (currently it's  invisible(NULL) )
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