R help - Jul 2003 - Default title for hist assumes name is short

On the following plot:

hist(apply(cbind( runif(1000), runif(1000)), 1,
  function(x) {sqrt(sum(x^2))}))

the title is three lines long and so has "Histogram of " at the start
of each line of the title.  This is because the definition of main in
hist.default is main = paste("Histogram of", xname).  Is there an easy
way of changing the default for main so that it only writes "Histogram
of" once?

Thanks, Stepehn

Stephen Eglen wrote:
> On the following plot:
> 
> hist(apply(cbind( runif(1000), runif(1000)), 1,
>   function(x) {sqrt(sum(x^2))}))
> 
> the title is three lines long and so has "Histogram of " at the
start
> of each line of the title.  This is because the definition of main in
> hist.default is main = paste("Histogram of", xname).  Is there an
easy
> way of changing the default for main so that it only writes "Histogram
> of" once?
> 
> Thanks, Stepehn
By specifying argument "main", as mentioned in ?hist ?

  hist(apply(cbind( runif(1000), runif(1000)), 1,
    function(x) {sqrt(sum(x^2))}), main="Anything")


Uwe Ligges

Did you try:

hist(apply(cbind( runif(1000), runif(1000)), 1,
   function(x) {sqrt(sum(x^2))}), main="adsf")

This worked for me in both S-Plus 6.1 and R 1.7.1.
hope this helps.  spencer graves

Stephen Eglen wrote:
> On the following plot:
> 
> hist(apply(cbind( runif(1000), runif(1000)), 1,
>   function(x) {sqrt(sum(x^2))}))
> 
> the title is three lines long and so has "Histogram of " at the
start
> of each line of the title.  This is because the definition of main in
> hist.default is main = paste("Histogram of", xname).  Is there an
easy
> way of changing the default for main so that it only writes "Histogram
> of" once?
> 
> Thanks, Stepehn
> 
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