[R] what is meaning of the bubbles in boxplots?

[Jim Lemon]

Jie TANG wrote:
> Hi ,everyone ,
>   I draw some boxplot figure with the command "boxplot".But in the
> figure,there are some bubbles at the top part of the figure.
>
>  Can anyone tell me what the correct meaning of these bubbles?and how to
> remove it?
>   
Hi Jie,
At a wild guess, the "bubbles" may be outliers. Have you checked for any 
values in your data that are much larger than all the rest?

Jim