[R] Histogram not plotting correct breaks

[Greg Snow]

What do you expect to happen to values that fall exactly on the boundary?  I have seen questions similar to yours that come about because the user expects different from what the computer does.  Look at the 'right' argument to the hist function for a way to change this and see if that helps.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the hist function to plot the frequency of 21 variables, but
> it
> keeps starting the x-axis from 0 and adding variables 1 and 2 together
> (all
> other vairables have the correct frequencies). I suspect it adds 1 and
> 2
> together so that 0 can fit in with demarcations at intervals of 5.
> Using
> "xlim=c(1,21)" to specify that i don't want to include 0 and using the
> "breaks" command to specify 21 breaks doesn't help. Any advice?
> Thank you!!
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