R help - May 2005 - Any ideas on how to add a dotted line to a box plot to indicate a specific value?

Basically, i want to create a boxplot from population data, with a solid 
line for the median, and then a dotted line for a specific persons 
value. Is there a way to artificially introduce another line or mark of 
some kind in a box plot? Thanks again for all of yoru help. Hopefully 
soon I wont have to keep bugging you all. ~Erithid :-p

Hi


BJ wrote:
> Basically, i want to create a boxplot from population data, with a solid 
> line for the median, and then a dotted line for a specific persons 
> value. Is there a way to artificially introduce another line or mark of 
> some kind in a box plot? Thanks again for all of yoru help. Hopefully 
> soon I wont have to keep bugging you all. ~Erithid :-p

Do you mean something like this ... ?

with(ToothGrowth,
      {
        boxplot(len ~ supp)
        # boxplots horizontally centred at 1 and 2
        # 0.6, 1.4 come from default boxwex of 0.8
        #   (1 +/- boxwex/2)
        # 18 I made up
        lines(c(0.6, 1.4), c(18, 18),
              lty="dashed", col="red")
      })

Paul
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lines(...) could perhaps be useful ?
hih

Lots of good ideas, and great advice! Thank you as always ~Erithid

vincent wrote:
> lines(...) could perhaps be useful ?
> hih
>
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