[R] Histogram
Sarah Goslee
sarah.goslee at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 21:34:06 CEST 2012
Hi Jim,
You can't specify both number of bins and bin size. You can specify
breaks: either the number of bins or the location of breakpoints. A
histogram with 20 bins of 50 observations each must by definition come
from a uniform distribution.
What are you trying to accomplish?
Sarah
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Jim Silverton <jim.silverton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a column of 1000 datapoints from the normal distribution with mean 2
> and variance 4. How can I get a histogram of these observations with 20
> bins with each bin having 50 observations?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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Sarah Goslee
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