On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Owen, Jason wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When plotting the results of a TukeyHSD multiple comparisons
> procedure with an ANOVA (lm) object, an extra line appears
> in the confidence intervals that contain 0. For example (this
> is straight from the TukeyHSD helpfile):
>
> > summary(fm1 <- aov(breaks ~ wool + tension, data = warpbreaks))
> > TukeyHSD(fm1, "tension", ordered = TRUE)
> > plot(TukeyHSD(fm1, "tension"))
>
> An extra line segment appears in the interval to the right of the
> dotted zero line. Coincidentally, if all of the calculated
> intervals for a dataset don't contain zero, this isn't a problem
> -- so I guess the line segment "belongs" to the zero line. I
> checked R Search and didn't find this mentioned before... but
> please let me know if I overlooked something.
You overlooked the following in the posting guide
If you are using an old version of R and think it does not work
properly, upgrade to the latest version and try that, before posting.
The NEWS for 2.2.1 says
o The plot() method for TukeyHSD() needed updating after adding
adjusted p-values. (PR#8229)
which is probably what you are referring to.
>
> Jason
>
> R 2.2.0 on Windows
Far too old.
> -- BTW, the error didn't happen on my Mac OSX w/ R 1.9.1
>
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