[Rd] Bug in function boxplot's axis labeling

Martin Maechler m@ech|er @end|ng |rom @t@t@m@th@ethz@ch
Wed May 15 21:14:20 CEST 2019


>>>>> Ulrike Grömping 
>>>>>     on Mon, 6 May 2019 10:09:05 +0200 writes:

    > Dear developeRs, I appreciate that boxplot now labels the
    > axes with variable names per default. However, with
    > argument "horizontal=TRUE" (which I always use), the
    > default axis labels are mixed up, as can e.g. be seen with

    > require(boot) 
    > boxplot(time ~ poison, poisons, horizontal=TRUE)

    > The correct labels would be obtained by

    > boxplot(time ~ poison, poisons, horizontal=TRUE,
    > 		xlab="time", ylab="poison")

    > Best, Ulrike

Yes, indeed.  Thank you, Ulrike, belatedly.

I've committed a corresponding change to R-devel yesterday, svn r 75503,
and will port that to   "R 3.6.0 patched" (so it will make it into R 3.6.1
and all newer versions) in a day or so.

Best,
Martin

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