R help - Feb 2009 - beanplot, Error in shapiro.test(x)

Dear all,
I am trying to create beanplots from a dataset for which boxplot works fine.
(MACOS, R 2.8.1 GUI 1.27 Tiger build 32-bit (5301))
I am getting the following error message:

Error in shapiro.test(x) : sample size must be between 3 and 5000

I am not even sure why the shapiro.test is being used, but is there any
workaround ?

Thanks !

Markus

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On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Markus Loecher wrote:
> I am getting the following error message:
>
> Error in shapiro.test(x) : sample size must be between 3 and 5000
>
> I am not even sure why the shapiro.test is being used, but is there any
> workaround ?
Yes, use log="". (ex: beanplot(rnorm(5001),log="") )

The default, log="auto", uses shapiro.test. Perhaps this should be 
improved for sample sizes greater than 5000. On the other end, 
shapiro.test could be improved in the future, and 5000 is quite a lot for 
a beanplot. When the data set is very large, R will freeze for some time.

Regards,

Peter Kampstra