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Mathematica: Retrieving PlotRange from Histogram


I know that one can retrieve PlotRange of a plot by using


AbsoluteOptions[plot,PlotRange]

but that won't work on Histogram. Here an example:


In[1099]:=


data = {-1.2056, -1.46192, -1.30053, -2.52879, -0.99636, -1.73904, -1.164,
-1.83398,-0.97505, -0.503256, -0.63802, -0.785963, -0.711821, -0.820439, -1.8699,
-3.9659, -1.4456, -1.67021, -1.42009, -2.5644, -1.45002, -1.27806, -1.66529,
-1.67073, -3.31102, -3.38638};
Histogram[%, PlotRange -> Automatic];
AbsoluteOptions[%, PlotRange]

When running the code I get the following message.


PlotRange::prng: Value of option PlotRange -> {{All,All},{-4.,0.}} is not All,
Full, Automatic, a positive machine number, or an appropriate list of range

specifications. >>

As I understood the documentation, PlotRange need to be of a certain format (e.g. two numbers) and {{All,All},{-4.,0.}} apparently does not fit to that format, for which reason Mathematica won't give me back the PlotRange of my histogram.


Does anybody know how I can get the PlotRange of a Histogram anyway? By the way: In the first place, it will only make sense to get hold of the second value of PlotRange (in my example: {-4.,0.}) since one can calculate the first one for instance through {0, Length[data]}.


Many thanks!


John



Answer



data = {-1.2056, -1.46192, -1.30053, -2.52879, -0.99636, -1.73904, \
-1.164, -1.83398, -0.97505, -0.503256, -0.63802, -0.785963, \
-0.711821, -0.820439, -1.8699, -3.9659, -1.4456, -1.67021, -1.42009, \

-2.5644, -1.45002, -1.27806, -1.66529, -1.67073, -3.31102, -3.38638};
hist = Histogram[data, PlotRange -> Automatic]
First[PlotRange /. Options[hist, PlotRange]]

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