R help - Jul 2009 - how to change the thickness of the lines of the boxplot outliers

Hi,

I tried to use boxplot function. I am following the ?boxplot and can
change the whisker box width using lwd parameter.  However, when
outline=TRUE, the thickness of the circle of the outliers is not
proportionally changed when I change the line width of the whisker
box.  There must be another parameter for that.  Unfortunately I don't
know.

please help and thanks much in advance.

-- 
Waverley @ Palo Alto

Hi


Waverley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to use boxplot function. I am following the ?boxplot and can
> change the whisker box width using lwd parameter.  However, when
> outline=TRUE, the thickness of the circle of the outliers is not
> proportionally changed when I change the line width of the whisker
> box.  There must be another parameter for that.  Unfortunately I don't
> know.

This sounds like a problem that was recently fixed in the development 
version.  It would be useful if you could send me (directly if you like) 
a sample of code that produces the problem.

Paul

> please help and thanks much in advance.
> 
> --
> Waverley @ Palo Alto
> 
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Thanks Paul.

I reproduced my problem using the example of the ?boxplot which is
also at
http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/graphics/html/boxplot.html

The sample code is as following:
boxplot(count ~ spray, data = InsectSprays, col = "lightgray", lwd=40)

lwd = 40 is kind of exaggerating but does show the case: the circles
of outliers maintain the original length while the box becomes a black
bulb.

BTW: I am using linux redhat ES3.0 64 bit. R is 2.9.0 version.

Thanks.


>Hi
>Waverley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to use boxplot function. I am following the ?boxplot and can
> change the whisker box width using lwd parameter.  However, when
> outline=TRUE, the thickness of the circle of the outliers is not
> proportionally changed when I change the line width of the whisker
> box.  There must be another parameter for that.  Unfortunately I don't
> know.

This sounds like a problem that was recently fixed in the development
version.  It would be useful if you could send me (directly if you
like) a sample of code that produces the problem.

Paul

> please help and thanks much in advance.
>
> --
> Waverley @ Palo Alto
>
> ______________________________________________
> 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.
--
Dr Paul Murrell
Department of Statistics
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand
64 9 3737599 x85392
paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/


-- 
Waverley @ Palo Alto