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kg23
kg23

Reputation: 51

How to alter the histogram bin widths?

my code is as follows:

hist(df2, main = paste("Histogram of Mutual Fund Survival Times"), xlab = "Number of Months", ylab = "Frequency of Mutual Funds", labels = TRUE, ylim=c(0,350))

My bin widths are currently 50. I would ideally like to change the first bin to a width of 36 and leave the rest at 50. Is this possible?

If not, all bin widths at 36 are fine.

Many Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1125

Answers (1)

Ben Norris
Ben Norris

Reputation: 5747

You can create bins with the breaks argument of hist. The breaks are the lower limit of each bin. They can be whatever you want. Here is an exaggerated example. In generates some errors, but it works.

hist(runif(n = 1000, min = 1, max = 100), breaks = c(1, 2, 10, 25, 100))

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Rather than manually provide the breaks, you can have R calculate them from your data:

hist(x, breaks = c(min(x), seq(min(x) + 36, max(x), 50)))

Upvotes: 1

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