Hi,
It must be an easy question but how to boxplot a subset of data:

data = read.table("my_data.txt", header = T)
boxplot(data$var1[data$loc == "nice"]~data$loc_type[data$loc == "nice"])
#in this case, i want to display only the boxplot loc == "nice"
#doesn't display the boxplot of only loc == "nice". It also displays loc == 
"mice"

Thanks

Carol
loc     type    loc_type        var1    var2    
nice    SA      nice_SA 2.96E+03        3.33E+03        
nice    SA      nice_SA 4.07E+03        4.44E+03        
nice    SA      nice_SA 3.33E+03        4.81E+03        
nice    Am      nice_Am 3.70E+02        0.00E+00        
nice    Am      nice_Am 7.41E+02        0.00E+00        
nice    Am      nice_Am 1.48E+03        0.00E+00        
nice    Ap      nice_Ap 3.70E+02        0.00E+00        
nice    Ap      nice_Ap 3.70E+02        0.00E+00        
nice    Ap      nice_Ap 3.70E+02        0.00E+00        
nice    Am_Ap   nice_Am_Ap      0.00E+00        0.00E+00        
nice    Am_Ap   nice_Am_Ap      0.00E+00        0.00E+00        
nice    Am_Ap   nice_Am_Ap      0.00E+00        0.00E+00        
mice    SA      mice_SA 9.26E+05        6.67E+04        
mice    SA      mice_SA 8.52E+05        7.78E+04        
mice    SA      mice_SA 9.63E+05        8.15E+04        
mice    Am      mice_Am 5.93E+03        5.56E+03        
mice    Am      mice_Am 5.56E+03        7.04E+03        
mice    Am      mice_Am 7.78E+03        7.41E+03        
mice    Ap      mice_Ap 8.89E+03        4.07E+03        
mice    Ap      mice_Ap 9.63E+03        3.33E+03        
mice    Ap      mice_Ap 1.07E+04        2.59E+03        
mice    Am_Ap   mice_Am_Ap      4.07E+03        1.11E+03        
mice    Am_Ap   mice_Am_Ap      4.81E+03        1.11E+03        
mice    Am_Ap   mice_Am_Ap      5.56E+03        3.70E+02        

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