[R] overlay of two sets of boxplots

[John Kane]

PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

At a rough guess you may want to have a look at the mfrow in ?par  but without some sample data and a bit more information about what you need it is difficult to suggest more.

By the way dput (see ?dput) is a handy way to supply a sample data set here.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: appel at neuro.mpg.de
> Sent: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:27:11 +0000
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] overlay of two sets of boxplots
> 
> Hello,
> I am new to R and currently have the following problem:
> I have successfully loaded my data in R which consists of two numeric
> columns (LI_F and female) and one character column (Strain). So far I can
> plot two different set of boxplots for each of the numeric columns
> plotted by the groups of the character column and the commands look like
> that:
> 
> boxplot(LI_F~Strain, ylab="LI_F", xlab="Strain", data=pain)
> boxplot(female~Strain, ylab="female", xlab="Strain", data=pain)
> 
> How can I overlay the two set of boxplots (preferably in different
> colors), so that I can compare them one by one, meaning two boxplots
> corresponding to the same character in "Strain" are directly above each
> other?
> I have tried a lot of things and would greatly appreciate your help.
> 
> Best,
> Mirjam
> 
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