breaks_on_nBins: Generate breaks for binning
In xcms: LC-MS and GC-MS Data Analysis

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Calculate breaks for same-sized bins for data values from fromX to toX.

1	breaks_on_nBins(fromX, toX, nBins, shiftByHalfBinSize = FALSE)

`fromX`	numeric(1) specifying the lowest value for the bins.
`toX`	numeric(1) specifying the largest value for the bins.
`nBins`	numeric(1) defining the number of bins.
`shiftByHalfBinSize`	Logical indicating whether the bins should be shifted left by half bin size. This results centered bins, i.e. the first bin being centered at `fromX` and the last around `toX`.

This generates bins such as a call to seq(fromX, toX, length.out = nBins) would. The first and second element in the result vector thus defines the lower and upper boundary for the first bin, the second and third value for the second bin and so on.

A numeric vector of length nBins + 1 defining the lower and upper bounds of the bins.

Johannes Rainer

binYonX for a binning function.

Other functions to define bins: breaks_on_binSize()

## Create breaks to bin values from 3 to 20 into 20 bins
breaks_on_nBins(3, 20, nBins = 20)
## The same call but using shiftByHalfBinSize
breaks_on_nBins(3, 20, nBins = 20, shiftByHalfBinSize = TRUE)