R help - Oct 2005 - horizontal violin plots?

I am trying to make horizontal violin plots. I have tried both vioplot
and simple.violinplot, but both of them seem to not be willing to take
the horizontal option. Is this correct, or am I just bungling it
somehow?

For instance, for vioplot (from the example shown, with the horizontal
modification):

> vioplot(bimodal,uniform,normal, horizontal=TRUE)
Error in median(data) : need numeric data
> 
Karin
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Le 26.10.2005 14:52, Karin Lagesen a ??crit :
>I am trying to make horizontal violin plots. I have tried both vioplot
>and simple.violinplot, but both of them seem to not be willing to take
>the horizontal option. Is this correct, or am I just bungling it
>somehow?
>
>For instance, for vioplot (from the example shown, with the horizontal
>modification):
>
>
>  
>
>>vioplot(bimodal,uniform,normal, horizontal=TRUE)
>>    
>>
>Error in median(data) : need numeric data
>  
>
>
>Karin
>  
>
Hello Karin,

the vioplot package only contains one function : vioplot of about only 
150 lines.
It won't be hard to look at that code and add an argument horizontal 
yourself. You just have to replace x by y and vice versa in all the 
lines, rect, ... calls. Maybe you can contribute it afterwards.

Romain

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On 10/26/05, Karin Lagesen <karin.lagesen at medisin.uio.no>
wrote:
>
> I am trying to make horizontal violin plots. I have tried both vioplot
> and simple.violinplot, but both of them seem to not be willing to take
> the horizontal option. Is this correct, or am I just bungling it
> somehow?
>
> For instance, for vioplot (from the example shown, with the horizontal
> modification):
>
>
> > vioplot(bimodal,uniform,normal, horizontal=TRUE)
> Error in median(data) : need numeric data
One possibility is to use lattice instead, see e.g.

library(lattice)
example(panel.violin)

HTH,
Deepayan