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 interquartile range from the box. A value of zero causes the whiskers to extend to the data extremes.” To my understanding, the code below, which drew the boxplot, should have drawn the right-hand whisker only to 387 and shown 496 as an outlier point. But it didn't. Using a range of 1.3 does. Horizontal versus vertical does not matter. Also, the right edge of the box does not show the same 3rd Quartile as does “summary.” Explain, please. > sort(t5g24times) [1] 111 135 201 234 283 283 284 285 300 370 387 496 > summary(t5g24times) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 111.0 225.8 283.5 280.8 317.5 496.0 > iqr <- 317.5 - 225.8 > iqr [1] 91.7 > 317.5 + 1.5 * iqr [1] 455.05 > pdf() > boxplot(c(t5g24times), horizontal=1, range=1.5) R version info: platform x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 arch x86_64 os darwin9.8.0 system x86_64, darwin9.8.0 status major 2 minor 12.0 year 2010 month 10 day 15 svn rev 53317 language R version.string R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
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