Exact number of bins in Histogram in R
The integer specified as argument for nclass
is used as a suggestion:
the number is a suggestion only
An alternative solution is to cut
your vector into a specified number of groups and plot the result:
plot(cut(data, breaks = 4))
Use the breaks argument:
hist(data, breaks=seq(0,80,l=6),
freq=FALSE,col="orange",main="Histogram",
xlab="x",ylab="f(x)",yaxs="i",xaxs="i")
Building on the answer from Rob Hyndman:
Maybe a more generic solution would be to make the breaks considering the minimun and maximun values of the data, and the number of breaks = number_of_bins+1.
hist(data,breaks=seq(min(data),max(data),l=number_of_bins+1),
freq=FALSE,col="orange",
main="Histogram",xlab="x",ylab="f(x)",yaxs="i",xaxs="i")
I like to be quite accurate about my data points:
hist(data,breaks = seq(min(data),max(data),by=((max(data) - min(data))/(length(data)-1))))
This should automate the process with little manual input.