Using builtin dataset stackloss try this: f <- function(x) replace(quantile(x, c(5, 25, 50, 75, 95)/100), 3, mean(x)) bxp(list(stats = sapply(stackloss, f), n = stackloss, names = names(stackloss)))
and see ?bxp and ?boxplot On Feb 17, 2008 9:17 PM, Stropharia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated: > > I need to produce a custom plot i haven't come across in R. Basically, I > want to show means, 1st standard deviation and 5th and 95th percentiles > visually, using something resembling a boxplot. Is it possible to completely > customize a boxplot so that it shows means as the bar (instead of, not as > well as medians), standard deviations at the hinges (instead of IQR) and 5th > & 95th percentiles at the brackets? The plotmeans function (ggplots) allows > means to be plotted, but it seems only with confidence intervals, not 5th > and 95th percentiles, and also without hinges (for standard deviations). > I've searched the forums and various books and have drawn a blank on this. > Thanks. > > Steve > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Steve Worthington > Ph.D. Candidate > New York Consortium > in Evolutionary Primatology > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Custom-Plot---means%2C-SD---5th-95th--%28Plotmeans-or-Boxplot%29--tp15537706p15537706.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.