[R] Default title for hist assumes name is short

[Uwe Ligges]

Stephen Eglen wrote:

> On the following plot:
> 
> hist(apply(cbind( runif(1000), runif(1000)), 1,
>   function(x) {sqrt(sum(x^2))}))
> 
> the title is three lines long and so has "Histogram of " at the start
> of each line of the title.  This is because the definition of main in
> hist.default is main = paste("Histogram of", xname).  Is there an easy
> way of changing the default for main so that it only writes "Histogram
> of" once?
> 
> Thanks, Stepehn

By specifying argument "main", as mentioned in ?hist ?

  hist(apply(cbind( runif(1000), runif(1000)), 1,
    function(x) {sqrt(sum(x^2))}), main="Anything")


Uwe Ligges