[R] boxplot(list(m[,1],...,m[,c]))

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Dybowski <rdybowski at btinternet.com> writes:

    Richard> Given a matrix m, I would like to obtain a boxplot of the
    Richard> columns of m; in other words,
    Richard> boxplot(list(m[,1],...,m[,ncol(m)])). At the moment, I am
    Richard> using

	     <...>

    Richard> for this purpose. Surely there must be a more eloquent way!

Indeed!
It's even in the `Examples' section of  help(boxplot) :

Use
	boxplot(data.frame(m))

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