> > Gabor, Bill, > > > On 2011-09-27 02:51, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Philip Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> > > wrote: > >> Gabor, > >> > >> > >> On 2011-09-27 00:35, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >>> > >>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Philip Rhoades > >>> <p...@pricom.com.au> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> People, > >>>> > >>>> It appears that there is no way of getting Boxplots to plot using > >>>> Mean, > >>>> SD, > >>>> Max & Min - is there something else that would do what I want? I > >>>> couldn't > >>>> find it . .
<snip> > > > Interesting! - I've learnt something about anscombe and sapply and > other stuff (thanks again!) but I think I mis-spoke before. I think > what I want is a list of numeric vectors but when I created tarr: > > tarr <- array( dim = c( 5,3 ), c( 1,2,3,4,5,2,3,4,5,6,3,4,5,6,7 ) ) > > I couldn't get it to work with the original code . . now I have had a > closer look at Bill's code . . > > On the original question though, why isn't there something "off the > shelf" that will do what I want? Surely, a "boxplot" using mean, SD, > max and min would be a common enough need to justify it? It is questionable. I use boxplots to demonstrate that underlaying data are more or less symmetrical or deviate from symetrical (normal) distribution. Boxplot with mean, sd are, in this respect, rather unusable. I would call such plots differently let say "meanplot" or "centralplot" to avoid confusion with real boxplot. My 0.02 Kc Regards Petr > > Thanks, > > Phil. > > -- > Philip Rhoades > > GPO Box 3411 > Sydney NSW 2001 > Australia > E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au > > ______________________________________________ > 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.