[R] ylim doesn't work in boxplots?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

s-luppescu at uchicago.edu writes:

> On 08-Dec-2000 Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> > s-luppescu at uchicago.edu writes:
> > 
> >> I want to leave a little extra room at the bottom for a legend in a box
> >> plot,
> >> but I find that the boxplot function ignores ylim. Is there any way around
> >> this? Thanks.
> > 
> > Eh? I can't reproduce that in neither 1.1.1 nor 1.2pre.
> 
> Actually, I'm producing the box plot numbers in boxplot() and then drawing the
> plot with bxp. The help says graphical parameters can be entered as a list
> (pars) or the regular way (...). When I just put in ylim=c(somenumber,
> anothernumber) in bxp() the y axis is unchanged. From looking at the source
> code, it looks like it should work, but....
> I don't know how to use pars. I tried pars=, pars(), but those gave me error
> messages.

Aha. OK I see it.

>  bx.p <- boxplot(split(rnorm(100), gl(5,20)))
>  bxp(bx.p,ylim=c(-5,5)) # no reaction
>  bxp(bx.p,pars=list(ylim=c(-5,5))) # works

This seems to have been fixed for 1.2.0

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