From: Prof Brian Ripley (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Sat 28 Jun 2003 - 16:48:19 EST
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306280745440.23533-100000@gannet.stats>
?hist says
breaks: one of:
...
* a single number giving the number of cells for the
histogram,
...
In the last three cases the number is a suggestion only.
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Tommy E. Cathey wrote:
> Why does the following code generate a Histogram of 7 cells
> instead of 5?
> > data(islands)
> > str(hist(sqrt(islands), br = 5, col="lightblue", border="pink"))
> List of 7
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