R help - Dec 2015 - Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color coded.

> I have tried:
> 
>    boxplot(data, las = 2, col >    c("red", "blue",
"black", "aquamarine1", "darkorange3"),
>    at = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), par(mar = c(12, 5, 4, 2) + 0.1),
>    names = c("Meeting1", "Meeting2",
"Meeting3", "Meeting4","Meeting5")
> 
> and have gotten a '+' at the end meaning I am missing something.
You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot() command.
Just finish with a ')'

S Ellison


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    > You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot()
    > command.  Just finish with a ')'

Hmm... I once learned

 '()' =: parenthesis/es
 '[]' =: bracket(s)
 '{}' =: brace(s)

Of course, I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher(s) /
teaching material may have been biased ... but, as all three
symbol pairs play an important role in R, I think it would be
really really helpful,  if we could agree on using the same
precise English here.

I'm happy to re-learn, but I'd really like to end up with three
different simple English words, if possible.
(Yes, I know and have seen/heard "curly braces", "round
 parentheses", ... but I'd hope we can do without the extra adjective.)

Thank you, well versed English (or "American") learned readers
of R-help, for wise guidance on this ...

Martin

> On Dec 15, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Martin Maechler <maechler at
stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>   [............]	  
> 
>> You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot()
>> command.  Just finish with a ')'
> 
> Hmm... I once learned
> 
> '()' =: parenthesis/es
> '[]' =: bracket(s)
> '{}' =: brace(s)

Martin,

The above is how I would refer to each.

Regards,

Marc

> 
> Of course, I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher(s) /
> teaching material may have been biased ... but, as all three
> symbol pairs play an important role in R, I think it would be
> really really helpful,  if we could agree on using the same
> precise English here.
> 
> I'm happy to re-learn, but I'd really like to end up with three
> different simple English words, if possible.
> (Yes, I know and have seen/heard "curly braces", "round
> parentheses", ... but I'd hope we can do without the extra
adjective.)
> 
> Thank you, well versed English (or "American") learned readers
> of R-help, for wise guidance on this ...
> 
> Martin
> 
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Martin,

I grew up in the Midwest of the United States--about as native English 
speaker as you could find.  I was taught exactly the same as you have 
learned.

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On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
>
>   [............]
>
>    > You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot()
>    > command.  Just finish with a ')'
>
> Hmm... I once learned
>
> '()' =: parenthesis/es
> '[]' =: bracket(s)
> '{}' =: brace(s)
>
> Of course, I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher(s) /
> teaching material may have been biased ... but, as all three
> symbol pairs play an important role in R, I think it would be
> really really helpful,  if we could agree on using the same
> precise English here.
>
> I'm happy to re-learn, but I'd really like to end up with three
> different simple English words, if possible.
> (Yes, I know and have seen/heard "curly braces", "round
> parentheses", ... but I'd hope we can do without the extra
adjective.)
>
> Thank you, well versed English (or "American") learned readers
> of R-help, for wise guidance on this ...
>
> Martin
>
> ______________________________________________
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> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s.ellison at lgcgroup.com
> Sent: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:17:59 +0000
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color
> coded.
> 
>> It is clear that a ) although is a type of bracket it is called a
>> parenthesis, just as ,
>> is called a comma, which is a type of punctuation mark.
> 
> These things are called parentheses because of what they do, not what
> they are.
> A parenthesis is any word or phrase inserted as an explanation or
> afterthought into text that would be is grammatically complete without
> it, usually bounded by punctuation. The bounding punctuation marks are
> then called parentheses, and can be round, square, or curly brackets,
> dashes, or just commas.
> 
> So (),  [], {}, - ... -  and , ... , are _all_ pairs of parentheses in
> grammatical usage.
> 
> Three of them are also kinds of bracket, but not the only kinds.
> 
> There's a disturbingly extensive article on it at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Names_for_various_bracket_symbols
I have lived next door to the USA for most of my life and never realized that
American usage is 'brackets' for  [ ] .  I would use the term brackets
in normal use for ( ) and "square brackets for [ ].
> 
> which suggests to me that the terms are unlikely to be standardised
> quickly.
> 
> Steve E
I am not expecting standardization any time this year.

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
>
>    [............]
>
>     > You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot()
>     > command.  Just finish with a ')'
>
> Hmm... I once learned
>
>  '()' =: parenthesis/es
>  '[]' =: bracket(s)
>  '{}' =: brace(s)
>
> Of course, I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher(s) /
> teaching material may have been biased ... but, as all three
> symbol pairs play an important role in R, I think it would be
> really really helpful,  if we could agree on using the same
> precise English here.
>
> I'm happy to re-learn, but I'd really like to end up with three
> different simple English words, if possible.
> (Yes, I know and have seen/heard "curly braces", "round
>  parentheses", ... but I'd hope we can do without the extra
adjective.)
I think this is what Americans are taught, but I can never remember
which is which. I use round brackets, square brackets, and squiggly
brackets, which are memorable, and even if you're not familiar with
the terms you can easily understand what I mean.

Hadley

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On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:16:21 -0800
John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:

...
> 
> I have lived next door to the USA for most of my life and never
> realized that American usage is 'brackets' for  [ ] .  I would use
> the term brackets in normal use for ( ) and "square brackets for [ ]. 
> ...
There's a lot of fog in the air.  Properly, the use in the USA is as
described by Martin.  But ever since the late '60s there has been a
de-emphasis of linguistic precision and a tendency to "good enough."
Sad.

JWDougherty