[R] Histogram binning

[jim holtman]

Is this what you want:

cuts <- c(0,209,429,719,1500)
x <- runif(1000,0,1447)
barplot(table(cut(x, breaks=cuts)))



On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Ben Cox <cox at montana.edu> wrote:
> I am trying to produce frequencies in defined intervals however I can't seem
> to figure out how to get R to bin my data the way I want it to.
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> I have several thousand lengths of fish that I want to be binned as follows:
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> Length      Bin
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> 209         200
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> 219         210
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> 431         430
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> 727         720
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> That is, bins with any length equal to or greater than the lower cutoff, but
> smaller than the next higher cutoff should be included.  I have tried using
> the right=FALSE and include.lowest in the hist function but it still puts
> lengths that is greater than the cutoff into the next bin.
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> All software seems to bin right, but fish nerds do it a little different.
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> Thanks!
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> Ben Cox
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> Graduate Research Assistant (M.S.)
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> Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit
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> Montana State University
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> Bozeman, MT 59717
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Jim Holtman
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?