find_nbins: Compute a reasonable default number of bins.

In tstev/tstevR: Someone's Collection of R functions

Description

Compute a reasonable default number of bins based on the data and different types of rules.

Usage

find_nbins(x, rule = c("FD", "RR", "Scott", "sqrt", "Sturges"), na_rm = TRUE)

Arguments

x	a numeric vector.
rule	a character string matching to a rule to use to determine number of bins.
na_rm	logical whether to remove (TRUE) missing values or not (FALSE)

Value

an integer with reasonable number of bins.

See Also

The following wiki for a discussion on different "rules-of-thumb". Additionally, the bigvis package and sources therein.

Examples

set.seed(42L)
find_nbins(rnorm(1000))
find_nbins(rnorm(1000), "Scott")
find_nbins(rnorm(1000), "sqrt")

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