Ryan,
I think you could do what you want by having the vector data written to
separate files; then create a file containing the individual file names. In
R, read the file containing the list of file names and loop through this
reading in the individual vector files. Maybe this is an inelegant, brute
force approach, but it has worked for me with essentially the same problem.
Tom
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Ryan Utz <utz.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm attempting to write a code that automatically imports data from
> different files (with different lengths-just one variable) and makes tidy
> box plots for comparison. I can successfully import the data and create a
> list of the vectors I want to compare. But I cannot, for the life of me,
> figure out how to generate box plots using the "list" option. Suppose these
> are my data:
>
> a<-c(1,1,1,1,2,3,2,1,2,3)
> b<-c(2,2,2,3,4,4,4,3,3)
> c<-c(4,3,3,2,3,4,5,3,3,3,4,4,5,6,3,2)
>
> And this is my list of the vectors I'm interested in:
>
> z<-list(c("a","b","c"))
>
> Well, this successfully generates the kind of boxplot I want:
>
> boxplot(a,b,c)
>
> But this does not:
>
> boxplot(z)
>
> Because I'm trying to write an automatic plot-generator as the amount of
> data I'm working with will typically vary, I need to write this to handle
> any number of data vectors.
>
> I've tried every imaginable means of tweaking the name of "z", with zero
> success. And I've scoured the help pages for about 45 minutes (just to
> preempt any "read the help" responses). Please help!
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
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