[R] Help with Hist

[Ivan Calandra]

Well, another possibility would be to edit the plot so that you cut the 
empty part (between 300 and 2000).
There might be some function that can do it, maybe the 
plotrix::gap.barplot() that Dieter already told you about.

Le 11/15/2010 16:22, sbsidney at mweb.co.za a écrit :
> 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.calandra at uni-hamburg.de>
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> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:08:47
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> Reply-To: ivan.calandra at 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
>>
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