Re: [R] "continuous" boxplot?

2007-10-02 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 10/2/07, Bert Gunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Folks: > > I found the references in the previous replies to this vexing data > visualization issue to be quite interesting and useful. I think it fair to > say that there is no single "best" way to do this -- it all depends on what > you nee

Re: [R] "continuous" boxplot?

2007-10-02 Thread roger koenker
The > canonical reference is Bill Cleveland's VISUALIZING DATA (see > "coplots"). > > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Statistics > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > project.org] On > Beha

Re: [R] "continuous" boxplot?

2007-10-02 Thread hadley wickham
Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jim Porzak > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:19 AM > To: Karin Lagesen > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] "continuous" boxplot? > > Karin, > > I like to us

Re: [R] "continuous" boxplot?

2007-10-02 Thread Bert Gunter
D] On Behalf Of Jim Porzak Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:19 AM To: Karin Lagesen Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] "continuous" boxplot? Karin, I like to use bagplots in these cases where there are a lot of cases and scatter plots become one big smudge. See http://www.wiw

Re: [R] "continuous" boxplot?

2007-10-02 Thread Jim Porzak
Karin, I like to use bagplots in these cases where there are a lot of cases and scatter plots become one big smudge. See http://www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~wolf/software/R-wtools/bagplot/bagplot.pdf And some further examples on slides 36 - 39 of http://www.porzak.com/JimArchive/JimPorzak_CIwithR_

Re: [R] "continuous" boxplot?

2007-10-02 Thread Greg Snow
2:32 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] "continuous" boxplot? > > > > I have two vectors x and y, which I would like to plot > against each other. I am also displaying other data in this > plot. However, I have about 1 million points to plot, an

Re: [R] "continuous" boxplot?

2007-10-01 Thread Eric Lecoutre
Hi Karin, Here is a way to do that: size=1 x<-rnorm(size) y<- runif(size)*x+runif(size) x.breaks <- seq(min(x),max(x),length=50) x.grps <- findInterval(x,x.breaks,all.inside=TRUE) boxplot(y~x.grps) You can adapt any numbers and boxplot options to what suits your data Another way is to use

[R] "continuous" boxplot?

2007-10-01 Thread Karin Lagesen
I have two vectors x and y, which I would like to plot against each other. I am also displaying other data in this plot. However, I have about 1 million points to plot, and just plotting them x againt y is not very informative. What I'd like to do is to do sort of a continuous box plot. My x va