Hi all,

Why not only?

set.seed(54321)
 X <- 5*rnorm(500)
hist(X,label=TRUE,ylim=c(0,200))

Thanks,

Jorge



On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk>
wrote:

> On 09-May-08 00:12:46, David Scott wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 May 2008, Roslina Zakaria wrote:
> >
> >> Dear R-expert,
> >> For histogram function, can we get the table of bin and
> >> frequency like in excel, together with the histogram?
> >> Therefore, we can check the number of data included.
> >> Thank you so much for your attention and help.
> >
> > Easy one: just use the argument plot=FALSE and hist will produce the
> > counts etc for you
> >
> > David Scott
>
> Well, there's a slightly nicer way than that! (Don't forget that
> we're competing with Excel here ... ).
>
> Since the value of hist() includes breakpoints and counts,
> you can get the plot and the table as follows:
>
>  set.seed(54321)
>  X <- 5*rnorm(500)
>  H<-hist(X)        ### Here you get the histogram drawn
>  B<-H$breaks ; C<-H$counts ; k<-length(B)
>  cbind(From=B[1:(k-1)],To=B[2:k],Count=C) ### Here bins and frequencies
> #     From  To Count
> #[1,]  -15 -10    16
> #[2,]  -10  -5    69
> #[3,]   -5   0   181
> #[4,]    0   5   149
> #[5,]    5  10    71
> #[6,]   10  15    14
>
> So we can indeed "get the table of bin and frequency like
> in excel, together with the histogram".
>
> Best wishes to all,
> Ted.
>
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