[R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color coded.

Tue Dec 15 17:10:59 CET 2015

Hi

I do not see any problem. Due to HTML posting we are not able to decipher what you are missing. Probably right parentheses.

I would start from beginning by

boxplot(data)

and gradually add required colour and other items to your boxplot.

Cheers
Petr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dmitri
> Leybman
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 4:06 PM
> To: peter dalgaard; r-help at r-project.org; dwinsemius at comcast.net
> Subject: Re: [R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color
> coded.
>
> Apologies for the HTML.
>
> This is the initial snippet of the values:
>
> Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4 Var5
> 0 0 7 1 0
> 0 0 7 0 0
> 1 1 8 2 0
> 5 5 8 0 0
> 1 4 8 1 0
> 4 5 8 0 0
> 0 1 7 2 1
> 5 1 7 0 0
> 2 4 9 0 1
> 1 2 9 2 NA
> 1 5 7 1 0
> 4 1 8 0 0
> 2 7 7 1 0
> 7 7 6 2 NA
> 5 2 7 0 0
> 0 1 7 0 4
> 1 3 8 1 0
> 1 5 7 2 0
> 7 2 8 0 0
> 7 0 8 2 0
> 7 5 8 2 0
> 2 0 9 1 0
> 1 6 8 1 0
> 3 4 7 0 2
>
>
>
> I have tried:
>
>
>    boxplot(data, las = 2, col =
>
>    c("red", "blue", "black", "aquamarine1", "darkorange3"),
>
>    at = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), par(mar = c(12, 5, 4, 2) + 0.1),
>
>    names = c("Meeting1", "Meeting2", "Meeting3", "Meeting4","Meeting5")
>
>
> and have gotten a '+' at the end meaning I am missing something.
>
>
> I used a modify version of the code I found on R-Help for Box-Whiskers
> plot formation <http://www.r-bloggers.com/box-plot-with-r-tutorial/>
>
>
> The code this blogger used was
>
>        boxplot(data, ylab =“Oxigen (%)”, xlab =“Time”, las = 2,
>
>        col =
>
> c(“red”,“sienna”,“palevioletred1″,“royalblue2″,“red”,“sienna”,“paleviol
> etred1″,
>
>        “royalblue2″,“red”,“sienna”,“palevioletred1″,“royalblue2″),
>
>         at = c(1,2,3,4,  6,7,8,9, 11,12,13,14), par(mar = c(12, 5, 4,
> 2) + 0.1),
>
>         names = c(“Station 1″,“Station 2″,“Station 3″,“Station
> 4″,“Station
>
>
>         1″,“Station 2″,“Station 3″,“Station 4″,“Station 1″,“Station
> 2″,“Station
>
>          3″,“Station 4″))
>
>
> I am trying to use the code above to create a five different box-and-
> whiskers plots color-coded. I don't need the "Station 1" or "Station 2"
> labels but I used this code as a starting point for the code I wanted
> write.  .
>
>
> I wanted the y-axis to read "Number of People Attended" instead of
> "Oxigen (%)"
>
>
> and the x-axis to refer to the particular meeting in question:
>
>
>    Meeting1, Meeting2, Meeting3, Meeting4, Meeting5
>
>
> which corresponds to variables var1, var2, var3, var4, var5.
>
>
> Each of the box and whiskers would show the median number, along with
> interquartile values, of each of these Meetings. The color coding is
> not necessarily but I think would make it a bit easier to read for
> observers.
>
> I apologize again for the convoluted reply and the HTML error.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:42 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > > On 14 Dec 2015, at 22:54 , David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> On Dec 14, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Dmitri Leybman <dleybman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I have a spreadsheet with five different columns standing for five
> > >> different variables:
> > >>
> > >> Variable 1 Variable 2 Variable 3 Variable 4 Variable 5 0 0 7 1 0 0
> > >> 0 7
> > 0 0 1
> > >> 1 8 2 0 5 5 8 0 0 1 4 8 1 0 4 5 8 0 0 0 1 7 2 1 I am trying to
> > >> create five box and whiskers plots on a single graph
> > with a
> > >> five x-label ticks named for each one of the variables along with
> > >> color coding. The names for the x-label would
> > be
> > >> "Meeting"[ pertains to Variable1] "Meeting2"[pertains to Variable
> > >> 2] Meeting3[pertains to Variable 3], Meeting4[pertains to
> > >> Variable4], Meeting5[pertains to Variable5].
> > >>
> > >> I have tried:
> > >>
> > >> boxplot(data, las = 2, col =
> > >> c("red", "blue", "black", "aquamarine1", "darkorange3") , at =
> c(1,
> > >> 2, 3, 4, 5), par(mar = c(12, 5, 4, 2) + 0.1), names = c("Meeting
> > >> 1", "'Meeting2",
> > >                         ^
> > > Extra single quote about here
> > >
> >
> > Hmm, at face value, that should just become part of the label...
> >
> > >
> > >> "Meeting3", "Meeting4","Meeting5")
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Error: unexpected string constant in:
> > >> "boxplot(data, las=2, col= c('red', 'blue', 'red', 'red', red')
> > >> boxplot(data, las=2, col= c('"
> >
> >
> > ...but the error message doesn't match the input, which is lacking a
> > right parenthesis. So is there a previous incomplete command maybe,
> or
> > are we just being shown random snippets of things that didn't work??
> >
> > I think we need to see a full transcript
> >
> >
> > >>
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> > >>
> >
> >
> > ...and PLEASE in plain text, not HTML.
> >
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> > >
> > > David Winsemius
> > > Alameda, CA, USA
> > >
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> >
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