[R] Label / Tick under single Boxplot

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Apr 20 12:08:37 CEST 2005


On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Werner Wernersen wrote:

> I also tried to look into the source code of boxplot()
> but when I type "boxplot"
> R returns only
>
> function (x, ...)
> UseMethod("boxplot")
> <environment: namespace:graphics>
>
> instead of the full source code as other function like
> colSums do.

That is `the full source code' of boxplot!

Please do read `An Introduction to R' and so find out about generic 
functions.

> How did you find out about bxp?

I believe Marc read the documentation: ?boxplot has a link to ?bxp and 
documents its own methods.  That's a good example to emulate.

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