Something worth discussing, I think these output names NEED a change : > boxplot(rt(250,df=3), plot=F) $"1" $"1"$stats [1] -2.7995357 -0.7170382 0.1109581 0.8426811 3.0483316 $"1"$n [1] 250 $"1"$conf [1] -0.04490152 0.26681765 $"1"$out [1] 5.784389 4.766206 -3.932449 -3.460407 -3.695599 5.486126 -3.141079 [8] 4.484507 12.731848 3.867611 4.040786 4.137455 3.772149 7.693779 [15] -3.431560 3.860079 -4.087880 3.766799 4.497379 -3.543726 -6.196635 [22] -6.322201 - "1" should rather be 1 and str(boxplot(data.frame(x=1:10,y=rt(10,df=4)),plot=F)) List of 2 $ x:List of 4 ..$ stats: num [1:5] 1 3 5.5 8 10 ..$ n : int 10 ..$ conf : num [1:2] 3 8 ..$ out : int(0) $ y:List of 4 ..$ stats: num [1:5] -1.4097 0.0251 0.4533 1.0871 1.4427 ..$ n : int 10 ..$ conf : num [1:2] -0.0774 0.9840 ..$ out : num(0) - attr(*, "row.names")= chr [1:10] "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" "10" where the `trailing' "row.names" attribute seems *very* unnecessary. {I'm in a hurry..} -- Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO D10 Leonhardstr. 27 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <>< -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._