\begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ ybar interval, title={endlinechar: \the\endlinechar~(should be 13)} ] % a data file containing 8000 normally distributed % random numbers of mean 0 and variance 1 \addplot+[hist={data=x}] file {pgfplots.randn.dat}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}