R help - Sep 2005 - Forcing hist()

I'm trying to create histogram (using hist()) that fullfill the following
criteria:

        * data is on a ordinal scale (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
        * I want bars centered over the number on the x-axis
        * I want 5 bars of equal width

I have tried various versions of the hist() command, with no luck. what
am I missing?

/Par

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Par Leijonhufvud                               par at hunter-gatherer.org
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On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 20:17 +0200, Par Leijonhufvud
wrote:
> I'm trying to create histogram (using hist()) that fullfill the
following
> criteria:
> 
>         * data is on a ordinal scale (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
>         * I want bars centered over the number on the x-axis
>         * I want 5 bars of equal width
> 
> I have tried various versions of the hist() command, with no luck. what
> am I missing?
> 
> /Par

More than likely, you want to use barplot() and not hist():

Try:

  barplot(1:5, names.arg = 1:5)

See ?barplot for more information.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

P.S. To R Core: It probably makes sense to add barplot to the See Also
section of ?hist, since hist is listed in the See Also for ?barplot.