[R] Boxplot BUT with Mean, SD, Max & Min ?

[Philip Rhoades]

Gabor,


On 2011-09-27 00:35, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> 
> wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> It appears that there is no way of getting Boxplots to plot using 
>> Mean, SD,
>> Max & Min - is there something else that would do what I want?  I 
>> couldn't
>> find it . .
>>
>
> Try replacing the stats component of boxplot's output with your
> desired statistics and then feeding that into the lower level bxp
> function to do the graphics:
>
> bp <- boxplot(Nile, plot = FALSE)
> bp$stats <- matrix(c(min(Nile), mean(Nile) + c(-1, 0, 1) * sd(Nile),
> max(Nile)))
> bxp(bp)


Thanks for that!  What is the syntax when there is more than one set of 
data (ie a two dimensional vector)?  I tried messing around with stuff 
like:

   mean(Nile[,2] etc

but I get subscript out of range errors  . .

Thanks,

Phil.
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