[R] another histogram question

[Marianne Promberger]

> I tried to shorten my histogram (because the distribution is quite skewed 
> and I simply don't want to see the long tail but still use the histogram 
> plot). How can I do something like this? (The example does not work but I 
> don't know why...)
>
> data <- rnorm(100) # as example, of course this is not skewed...


Hmm not sure if this is what you want, but maybe subset the data:

hist(data[data > -1])

m.

>
> h <- hist(data, plot=FALSE)
> mh <- 5
> hh <- list(h$breaks[0:(mh+1)], 
> h$counts[0:mh],h$intensities[0:mh],h$density[0:mh],h$mids[0:mh],h$xname,h$equidist)
> names(hh) <- names(h)
> plot(hh)
>
>
> Antje
>
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Marianne Promberger
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