[R] hist() bar width definition

[peter dalgaard]

On 11 Sep 2015, at 15:00 , Ana Raquel Felizardo Rodrigues <arfelizardo at isa.utl.pt> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a realy dumb question about hist(). Is it possible to define classes width independently from breaks? I have breaks=c(0,2,100,max(mydata)), but would like the 3 bars to have the same width and to label x axe with 0, 2 and >100. Can anyone help me?

It's not a histogram then....

I think it is both practically and conceptually easier to do it as a barplot, as in

f <- cut(x, breaks=c(....))
levels(f) <-  c("0-2", "3-100", ">100") # or whatever...
barplot(table(f))

-pd 


> 
> Thank you all!
> 
> Ana Raquel Rodrigues
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