[R] histogram cells

Tommy E. Cathey
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:02:24 -0000

Why does the following code generate a Histogram of 7 cells
instead of 5?

Thanks for your help.
--Tommy

> data(islands)
> str(hist(sqrt(islands), br = 5, col="lightblue",
border="pink"))
List of 7
 $ breaks     : num [1:8] 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
 $ counts     : int [1:7] 40 1 1 2 2 1 1
 $ intensities: num [1:7] 0.04167 0.00104 0.00104 0.00208 0.00208 ...
 $ density    : num [1:7] 0.04167 0.00104 0.00104 0.00208 0.00208 ...
 $ mids       : num [1:7] 10 30 50 70 90 110 130
 $ xname      : chr "sqrt(islands)"
 $ equidist   : logi TRUE
 - attr(*, "class")= chr "histogram"


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