The function find_breaks()
isolates a piece of code of
the function truehist()
from package MASS
that is used to compute the set of breakpoints to be applied for the
construction of the histogram.
find_breaks(x, nbins = "Scott", h, x0 = -h/1000)
numeric. A vector.
integer or character. The suggested number of bins.
Either a positive integer, or a character string naming a rule:
"Scott"
(the default) or "Freedman-Diaconis"
or "FD"
.
(Case is ignored.)
numeric. The bin width, a strictly positive number (takes precedence over nbins).
numeric. Shift for the bins -
the breaks are at x0 + h * (..., -1, 0, 1, ...)
.
A numeric vector.
histo()
in this package;
truehist()
from package MASS;
hist()
from package graphics.