Also check out bplot() function in the library fields. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Cleland > Sent: 30 March 2004 20:07 > To: Carlos J. Gil Bellosta > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] BoxPlots, 1 Way ANOVA and Non-Statisticians. > > > Carlos: > You could just give the same values for the ylim argument in each > boxplot > > par(mfrow=c(1,2), las=1) > boxplot(rnorm(10), rnorm(10), rnorm(10), ylim=c(-3,3)) > boxplot(rnorm(10, 0.5, 1), rnorm(10, -.5, 1), rnorm(10), ylim=c(-3,3)) > > Carlos J. Gil Bellosta wrote: > > I am working in a project and I have a number of observations belonging > > to several classes. Using a 1 Way ANOVA, I have rejected the > equality of > > means hypothesis with a very small p-value. However, the people I have > > to present my results to are not statisticians and they are not very > > likely to be much impressed by a 1.32434e-12 like number/thing. > > > > Therefore I have decided to make to boxplots, one for the actual data > > and the second one for simulated data where the equality of the means > > holds so that the difference in the distributions can be visually > > appreciated. > > > > The problem is that, for the simulated values, being more regular, the > > range of variation is smaller and, therefore, the heigth of the window > > where their boxplot is drawn is also smaller. As a result, the > scales of > > the two boxplots are not the same and part of the appeal of the visual > > approach is lost in the way. > > > > My question is, is there a way to make two different boxplots within a > > "common window"? (Or rather, a common size window or, more concretely, > > so that it spans over the same range on the vertical axis). > > -- > Chuck Cleland, Ph.D. > NDRI, Inc. > 71 West 23rd Street, 8th floor > New York, NY 10010 > tel: (212) 845-4495 (Tu, Th) > tel: (732) 452-1424 (M, W, F) > fax: (917) 438-0894 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
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