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2. Google is your friend. There are a ton on the web. Search! -- Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." H. Gilbert Welch On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:18 AM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > May be this helps: > dat <- read.table(text="Designation Basic > ASA .25 > ASA .28 > ASA .32 > TASA .45 > TASA .33 > TASA .43",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > boxplot(Basic~Designation,data=dat,col=2:3) > #or > library(ggplot2) > ggplot(dat,aes(x=Designation,y=Basic,fill=Designation))+geom_boxplot() > > A.K. > > Hello - I've been away from stat programming for a very long time and > am just getting back into it. I'm not used to a non GUI interface which > is where I'm running into problems with R. > > I have a data set that i'd like to use to create boxplots. > > the dataset sample looks as follows > > Designation Basic > ASA .25 > ASA .28 > ASA .32 > TASA .45 > TASA .33 > TASA .43 > > I have my grouping variable under 'designation' that i would like to use to > create the boxplot. > > Could i request some help on the syntax to use after i have read > this data file into a variable, say 'data' to group the information as > per the grouping variable ? how do i define the grouping variable and > use it in the boxplot command ? > > Any information would be greatly appreciated. in addition, if > you could also point me to some basic training guides, that would be > helpful as well. > > Thanks! > > Raol > > ______________________________________________ > 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.