R help - May 2008 - Boxplot width

Hi there,

assume that you have data with different sampling like

d1 <- rnorm(100)
d2 <- rnorm(150)

now, I'd like to create two boxplots in one graph but each plot located at
the
sampling number at the x-axis. This, I can do with "at"

l <- list(d1,d2)
boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200) )

but both plots are very thin and I'd like to increase the width of the plot.
I tried "width" but probably I do it wrong.

Can anybody help me?

Antje

Hi Antje,

Try this:

d1 <- rnorm(100)
d2 <- rnorm(150)
boxplot(c(d1,d2) ~ rep(c(1,2),c(100,150)),col=c(4:5))

HTH,

Jorge


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Antje <niederlein-rstat@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> assume that you have data with different sampling like
>
> d1 <- rnorm(100)
> d2 <- rnorm(150)
>
> now, I'd like to create two boxplots in one graph but each plot located
at
> the sampling number at the x-axis. This, I can do with "at"
>
> l <- list(d1,d2)
> boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200) )
>
> but both plots are very thin and I'd like to increase the width of the
> plot.
> I tried "width" but probably I do it wrong.
>
> Can anybody help me?
>
> Antje
>
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Hi Bert,

this is the code I already wrote in my first mail:

d1 <- rnorm(100)
d2 <- rnorm(150)

l <- list(d1,d2)
boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200) )

Just execute it an see how the boxplots look like.

I simply don't know how to change the width.

Compare with:
boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200), width=c(2.0,2.0) )

or

boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200), width=c(50,50) )

nothing changes. So I'm doing something wrong...

(Jorges answer in no solution at all to this problem... or I miss something 
very important...)


Antje




Bert Gunter schrieb:
> Have you checked ?bxp where it tells you that width must be a **vector** of
> relative widths?
> 
> It would help if you told us **exactly** what you did in the form of
> reproducible code as the posting guide requests (see bottom of this
> message).
> 
> -- Bert Gunter
> Genentech 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at
r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Antje
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:52 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Boxplot width
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> assume that you have data with different sampling like
> 
> d1 <- rnorm(100)
> d2 <- rnorm(150)
> 
> now, I'd like to create two boxplots in one graph but each plot located
at
> the 
> sampling number at the x-axis. This, I can do with "at"
> 
> l <- list(d1,d2)
> boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200) )
> 
> but both plots are very thin and I'd like to increase the width of the
plot.
> I tried "width" but probably I do it wrong.
> 
> Can anybody help me?
> 
> Antje
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 
>