You are drawing four box plots, not two. Two of them are just the number 5.
The two box plots that are only "5" don't have a box, so you
can't see that
they're red. Try this:
boxplot(1:19,20:39,col=c("red","blue"))
Paul Adams-8 wrote:>
> Hello everyone,
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> I am trying to color two boxplots on the same graph two
> different colors.
> I have tried the following
>
> boxplot(5,1:19,5,20:39,col=c("red","blue"))
> but all I get are two blue boxes.
> Any help would be appreciated
> Paul
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