R devel - Apr 2004 - boxplot graphical arguments (PR#6832)

Dear r-bugs,

I'd like to be able to draw boxplots with solid or dotted whisker lines.
The lty argument is currently ignored by boxplot(), and indeed hardwired
in bxp().

It's not very difficult to customize these functions to generate various
types of boxplots, but generally it might be an idea to allow the user to
pass a few more graphical arguments to boxplot(). The approach might as
well mimic S-Plus, but still retain the default R look.

Thanks,
Arni

R 1.9.0 on WinXP

>>>>> "arnima" == arnima 
<arnima@u.washington.edu>
>>>>>     on Wed, 28 Apr 2004 04:42:33 +0200 (CEST) writes:
    arnima> Dear r-bugs, 

there's no such group nor person --  "R developers" might be
appropriate (including R-core but more)
{or did I just not get your implied joke?  never mind}

    arnima> I'd like to be able to draw boxplots
    arnima> with solid or dotted whisker lines.  The lty
    arnima> argument is currently ignored by boxplot(), and
    arnima> indeed hardwired in bxp().

    arnima> It's not very difficult

exactly

    arnima>  to customize these functions
    arnima> to generate various types of boxplots, but generally
    arnima> it might be an idea to allow the user to pass a few
    arnima> more graphical arguments to boxplot(). The approach
    arnima> might as well mimic S-Plus, but still retain the default R look.

Good ideas, I agree!  And you are giving all the reasons why it
makes sense for us to wait for your improvement patches,
to be specific, probably to the files

   R-1.9.0/src/library/graphics/R/boxplot.R
   R-1.9.0/src/library/graphics/man/boxplot.Rd
   R-1.9.0/src/library/graphics/man/bxp.Rd

    arnima> Thanks, Arni

Thank you, in advance, for your contribution :-)

Martin Maechler