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histogram->GetYaxis()->SetRangeUser(lower,upper);
If you have a TGraph, SetRangeUser will not work for the x axis. It will not complain but also not do anything. Or not the thing you want.
You have to use SetLimits(), like:
TGraph* myGraph = new TGraph(); ... myGraph->SetLimits(lower,upper);