Re: [R] changing parameters of the box and whisker plot

2010-05-09 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Here's one way to get what you want, using the plyr and ggplot2 packages. # Fake some data dd <- data.frame(g = factor(rep(LETTERS[1:10], each = 30)), y = rnorm(300)) # Summarize to get min, median and max per group # Uses function ddply() in the plyr package... library(ggpl

Re: [R] changing parameters of the box and whisker plot

2010-05-09 Thread David Winsemius
On May 9, 2010, at 1:33 PM, michael westphal wrote: Hello: I am plotting some data using the box and whisker plot. What function? However, I only want to plot the median, max and min, as I only have these values and not the quartile values. You could just read the help page for bxp and

[R] changing parameters of the box and whisker plot

2010-05-09 Thread michael westphal
Hello: I am plotting some data using the box and whisker plot. However, I only want to plot the median, max and min, as I only have these values and not the quartile values. It seems R arbitrarily constructs the box margins to be halfway between the median and the max/min. How do I make the