[R] displaying sample size in boxplots

[Patrick Drechsler]

Hi Marc,

Marc Schwartz wrote on 29 Sep 2004 14:08:19 MET:

> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 07:46, Patrick Drechsler wrote:
>> I was wondering if there is a ready made function or parameter
>> for indicating the sample size in boxplots?
[...]

> Note that boxplot() returns values, which includes a variety of
> summary information on each group within your data. See the
> "Value" section of ?boxplot and ?boxplot.stats for more
> information.
>
> Thus, you can do something like (using the first example in
> ?boxplot):
>
> data(InsectSprays)
>
> # Save the returned values from boxplot() in "S"
> S <- boxplot(count ~ spray, data = InsectSprays, col = "lightgray")
>
> # S$n is the sample size for each group
> # S$names contains the group names
> mtext(side = 1, text = S$n, at = 1:length(S$names), line = 2)

Thank you very much--just what I was looking for!

Patrick
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