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How are the lower/upper whiskers defined in the default version of boxplot {graphics}? I tried help(boxplot) and searching www.rseek.org, but I was unable to determine an absolute answer. I checked out the definition of boxplot according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot), but it also had several approaches listed for how the whiskers could be determined, so I'm just

Another naive stats question. I'm trying to better understand what boxplots are telling me. I think what I see is the median and the boundaries of the 1st and 3rd quartiles. The whiskers represent the range of the data unless there are points which are outside "range" (default: 1.5) times the distance from the median to that quartile. Is that right? I've read the

Dear list members, Can anyone tell me how the notches in boxplot(Y~X,notch=T) are calculated? What do these notches represent exactly? I?d suppose they are Conficence Intervals for the median, but I?ve also been told they might show Least Significant Difference (LSD) equivalents. I would very much appreciate any help from you. Best regards Chris.

Hello I am trying to import the attached file Curva LIBOR to R. I am trying to use the following commands and obtaining the following errors > res <- read.xlsx("C:\\Users\\FELIPE PARRA\\Documents\\Quantil\\Federacion\\Curva LIBOR.xlsx", 4) Error en .jcall(rowCells[[ic]], "I", "getColumnIndex") : RcallMethod: invalid object parameter > res <-

Dear list, How can I add the mean and standard deviation to each of the boxplots using the example provided in the boxplot function? boxplot(len ~ dose, data = ToothGrowth, boxwex = 0.25, at = 1:3 - 0.2, subset = supp == "VC", col = "yellow", main = "Guinea Pigs' Tooth Growth", xlab = "Vitamin C dose mg",

Hello all, I have been working with b-splines and noted that the splines package is not available in CRAN. Does any body know what happened with it? Or, is there any package that replaces it? Thank you Felipe Parra [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, I have stings which have all sort of characters (numbers, letters, punctuation marks, etc) I would like to stay only with the numbers in them, does somebody know how to do this? Thank you Felipe Parra [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello I want to unlist the attached element getting only the first element in each element of the list. The last element of the list looks as this: [[5065]] [[5065]]$Pluv3Meses [1] 274.4 [[5065]]$PluvMesesMedio [1] 378.2667 [[5065]]$Pluv2UltimosMeses [1] 23.33333 So I would like to get for each element of the list the element called Pluv3Meses. The whole list has 5065 elements but when I try to

Hello I am new to RExcel and I would like to run a source code form the excel worksheet. I would like to run the following code source("C:\\Quantil Aplicativos\\Genercauca\\BackwardSelectionNC.r") from the excel wroksheet. Does anybody know how to do this? Thank you Felipe Parra [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

PR #7690 points out that if the confidence intervals (+/-1.58 IQR/sqrt(n)) in a boxplot with notch=TRUE are larger than the hinges -- which is most likely to happen for small n and asymmetric distributions -- the resulting plot is ugly, e.g.: set.seed(1001) npts <- 5 X <- rnorm(2*npts,rep(3:4,each=npts),sd=1) f <- factor(rep(1:2,each=npts)) boxplot(X~f) boxplot(X~f,notch=TRUE) I can

Hello R-Help, Could anybody tell me how the boxplot-function calculates the upper and lower extremes of the notch contained in $conf which I assume is the confidence interval? Is it reliable for data which is not normally distributed? If not, how can I calculate and boxplot a specific confidence interval for not normally distributed data in R (increasing the sample size does not normalize the

I really like the ease of use with the boxplot command in R. I would rather have a boxplot that shows the average value and the standard deviation then the median value and the quartiles. Is there a way to do this? Chad Junkermeier, Graduate Student Dept. of Physics West Virginia University PO Box 6315 210 Hodges Hall Morgantown WV 26506-6315 phone: (304) 293-3442 ext. 1430 fax: (304)

My box plot below is drawing its upper whisker all the way to the last point, instead of showing the point as an outlier. Am I misunderstanding, or is it a bug? Help(boxplot) states for the parameter ?range? that ?this determines how far the plot whiskers extend out from the box. If range is positive, the whiskers extend to the most extreme data point which is no more than range times the

I have read and reread the boxplot and the boxplot stats page, and I still cannot understand how and what boxplot shows. I realize that this might be due to me not knowing enough statistics, but anyway... First, how does boxplot determine the size of the box? And is the line inside the box the mean or the median (or something completely different?) And how does it determine how long out the

Hello, I am runnning a program on R with a "big" number of simulations and I am getting the following error: Error: no se puede ubicar un vector de tamaño 443.3 Mb I don't understand why because when I check the memory status in my pc I get the following: > memory.size() [1] 676.3 > memory.size(T) [1] 1124.69 > memory.limit() [1] 4000 which should in theory allow to

Hello, i have the following list strsplit(as.character(Elecciones$Municipios),"\\.") [[1]] [1] "ANTIOQUIA" "ABEJORRAL" [[2]] [1] "META" "ACACIAS" [[3]] [1] "CASANARE" "AGUAZUL" [[4]] and I would like to make a vector of the first element of each of the list items, in this case ANTIOQUIA, META, CASANARE, etc . Do you know how

Sorry to repost this, but it looks like it's getting buried in r-help (originally posted October 5: my experience says that if it hasn't been answered by then it won't be). I wouldn't bother, but I'm worried that r-devel might be better, *and* a previous e-mail of mine on the subject in January also seemed to get buried. Synopsis: boxplot notches look weird when notches are

Hello to all, I have been using an optim with the following call: optim(param_ini,fun_errores2,Precio_mercado=Precio,anos_pagosE2=anos_pagos,control=list(maxit=10000,reltol=1e-16)) depending on the intial values I'm getting the same solution but once I get the convergence message=10 (no convergence) and for the others I get convergence message = 0 Solution1: $par beta1

Hello. I would like to know if there exists in R a function like trunc but where i can choose how many decimal places can I stay with in the number I have (sort of the same as the trunc function in excel). I would like, for example if I have the number 0.974678 and I choose to stay with 3 decimal places to have as ouput 0.974. Thank you Felipe Parra [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

A function I've been using for a while returned a surprising [to me, given the data] error recently: Error in plot.window(xlim, ylim, log, asp, ...) : Logarithmic axis must have positive limits After some digging I realized what was going on: x <- c(10460.97, 10808.67, 29499.98, 1, 35818.62, 48535.59, 1, 1, 42512.1, 1627.39, 1, 7571.06, 21479.69, 25, 1, 16143.85, 12736.96,