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I am very new to R so forgive me if this seems basic but I have done extensive searching and failed to come up with the answer for myself. I am trying to label a boxplot I have created with the values for the median, upper and lower quartiles and max and min values. I have been unable to do this or find anything on the net to say how it might be done. Is this possible and if so how? Regards,

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

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

I've got a graph with really long labels. I've tried decreasing the font size, but they're still getting truncated. I've RTFMed & it seems that mgp should have something to do with this, but I can't make it work. I need about 2-3x as much space for labels as is available by default (or on the example below). boxplot(split(ranks,c(1:25)), names=items, horizontal=F)

In a Box and Whisker plot, I thought that when there are outliers both abov= e and below the whiskers, then the whiskers should both be the same length = (plus or minus 1.5 times the inter-quartile range). If you look at the plot for SilwoodWeather on p.155 of The R Book you will = see that for November (month =3D 11) the upper whisker is shorter than the = lower, while for other months with

Hi List, Just wondering where the documentation exists for the statistics which makeup the bwplot. I'm guessing that if R is like similar products that the graph is constructed as The median is the filled circle. The box surrounding the filled circle depicts the 25th and 75th quartile. The range of values is given by the dotted lines (?whiskers?) outside of each box, and possible

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 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)

I'm doing a study where people place a deck of cards in a certain order. It's sufficient to assume that their colors & each has a number (it's actually about attributes of hobbies). I'd like to look for patterns in how they've arranged the deck. For each subject I have a list like 3,5,2,4,1, indicating that (s)he chose 3 first, then 5, then 2. . . . I think what I first

For boxplot(), is it possible to pass in a parameter to change the default way that the 1st and 3rd quartiles are computed? (specifically, I'd like to use type 6 described in the quantile function). Also, what are the options for how outliers are computed, and how can one change them? Thank you [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I've got a data set with integer codes from 0--3. I'd like a histogram with a single bar for 0, 1, 2 and 3. I'd like each of the 4 bars centered over a label. hist(mydata, breaks=4, main="Simulation") gives me three bars. The best I've been able to do is do something like print(hist((wexp), breaks=25, main="Simulation")) This gives me something

The standard R boxplot appears to use quartiles to determine the height of the rectangles and a range parameter - RNG - (default=1.5 I think) that determines the length of the whiskers as <= RNG x Interquartile Range. Is it possible to instead define the range as extending to the 95th percentile? If so, how would this be done? nb, I'm plotting multiple boxplots on a single chart so a

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",

It appears that fetch() gets only the first 500 rows by default. I don't see this in the documentation, but timeinfo <- fetch(rs) gets only 500 rows where timeinfo <- fetch(rs,n=-1) gets (correctly) 736 for the same query. Is this an undocumented feature? I played with this data for an alarming amount of time before I realized that I was missing a third of the data. I

Hello, I have a couple more questions about boxplots. In the books I've read on statistics (I'm not a statistics expert but just a poor engineer trying to help his wife with the analysis of the data she gathered for her medieval history PhD), I seen two kinds of box plots: one using quartiles to determine the height of the rectangles and whiskers which is what the standard R boxplot does,

Hello: I am plotting some data using the box and whisker plot. However, I only want to plot the median, max and min, as I only have these values and not the quartile values. It seems R arbitrarily constructs the box margins to be halfway between the median and the max/min. How do I make the box and whisker plots without the box values? Thanks, Michael [[alternative HTML version

Hi! My name is Martin and I have a problem concerning the boxplot function in R. I want my boxes to be limited by the 1st and 3rd quartile and NOT the 'hinges' values that are the default setting in R. Do anyone knows if there is any command that I could do to change this default setting? Sincerely Martin Olofsson

I've got a background in computer science & have been using Linux for nearly a decade. I'm working on a Ph.D. in education and technology and I essentially live in emacs and do all of my writing in LaTeX. To me R seems like the perfect stats package. Unfortunately, the learning curve is killing me. I feel like that if I'd waded through pulling down menus in SPSS or SAS I could

I'm an R novice and my colleagues are about to convince me to get my data into SPSS, which will presumably be easier for someone who doesn't live in R to point and click his way into some kind of analysis that might be meaningful. I've got two groups of subjects (classkey in the table below). They've each received several different treatments. One measure is a 1-7 rating taken

Hello, I faced something I can't understand. When I use boxplot.stats(1:10) and quantiles(1:10) the results are different for 25% and 75%: > boxplot.stats(1:10) $stats [1] 1.0 3.0 5.5 8.0 10.0 > quantile(1:10) 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1.00 3.25 5.50 7.75 10.00 Actually, I expected the value 3 for 25% and 8 for 75% as results of quantile(1:10). Can you please explain me