Hello All, On the subject of boxplots, I have multiple data sets of unequal sample sizes and was wondering what would be the most efficient way to read in the data and plot side-by-side boxplots, with options for controlling the orientation of the plots (i.e. vertical or horizontal) and the spacing? Your assistance is greatly appreciated, but please try to be explicit as I am no R expert. Thanks
Janh On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:19 AM, David L Carlson <dcarl...@tamu.edu> wrote: > Your variable loc_type combines information from two variables (loc and > type). Since you are subsetting on loc, why not just plot by type? > > boxplot(var1~type, data[data$loc=="nice",]) > > ---------------------------------------------- > David L Carlson > Associate Professor of Anthropology > Texas A&M University > College Station, TX 77843-4352 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > > project.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon > > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 4:05 AM > > To: carol white > > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > > Subject: Re: [R] boxplot > > > > On 03/21/2013 07:40 PM, carol white wrote: > > > Hi, > > > It must be an easy question but how to boxplot a subset of data: > > > > > > data = read.table("my_data.txt", header = T) > > > boxplot(data$var1[data$loc == "nice"]~data$loc_type[data$loc == > > "nice"]) > > > #in this case, i want to display only the boxplot loc == "nice" > > > #doesn't display the boxplot of only loc == "nice". It also displays > > loc == "mice" > > > > > Hi Carol, > > It's them old factors sneakin' up on you. Try this: > > > > boxplot(data$var1[data$loc == "nice"]~ > > as.character(data$loc_type[data$loc == "nice"])) > > > > Jim > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
