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In The American Statistician vol 42 (1988) pages 257 - 280, Yoav Benjamini investigates some variations on the box plot, including vaseplots, which maek the width of each box vary proportionally to he estimated density at a particular point. Has anyone implemented these in R ? Thanks as always Peter

...produced in the style de- scribed in the Tukey (1977) reference; otherwise, the plot will follow the more modern style introduced in Tukey (1990), where the advantages of the new style are de- scribed. horiz=: if TRUE boxes are drawn horizontally. from: (vaseplots) lower bound for the percent of data to use in fitting density'. By default 0.25. to: (vaseplots) upper bound for the percent of data to use in fitting density'. By default 0.75. kernel.width: (vaseplots) width of the kernel window, as de- fined in the functi...