[R] Overlay Boxplot with scatter plot

Lanre Okusanya lanre.okusanya at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 14:51:50 CEST 2006


my apologies about the initial bad sample code. Now assume I have

a<-rnorm(6)
b<-rep(c(10,20),each=3)
ab<-data.frame(a,b)

and I wanted to overlay this points on the graph?

On 8/1/06, Petr Pikal <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
> Hi
>
> your example code is not reproducible.
>
> On 1 Aug 2006 at 8:09, Lanre Okusanya wrote:
>
> Date sent:              Tue, 1 Aug 2006 08:09:38 -0400
> From:                   "Lanre Okusanya" <lanre.okusanya at gmail.com>
> To:                     R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject:                [R] Overlay Boxplot with scatter plot
>
> > I am trying to make a box plot and overlay it with a scatter plot from
> > another data.frame. I was able to successfully create the boxplot, but
> > when i tried using points(x~y...) the dots did not show up.
> >
> > example code
> >
> > aa<-(300,300,300,300,600,600,600,600,900,900,900,900)
>          ^^^ missing c
> > bb<-(13,12,14,11,56,44,34,75,22.,34,22,98,59,55,56)
> > cc<-(13,12,14,11,56,44,34,75,22.,34,22,98,59,55,56)
> > nn<-data.frame(aa,bb)
> different length of aa and bb
>
> > mm<-data.frame(aa,cc)
> > boxplot(bb~aa, data=nn)
> > lines(cc~aa, data=cc)
> >
> > Any help with example code is appreciated.
>
> x<-rnorm(20)
> y<-rep(c(10,20),each=10)
> bbb<-boxplot(x~as.factor(y))
>
> although it seems as boxes are drawn at 10, 20 they are not.
> Actually the x position of each box is located at
>
> - from help page -
> at              numeric vector giving the locations where the boxplots should be
> drawn, particularly when add = TRUE; defaults to 1:n where n is the
> number of boxes.
>
> as you can clearly demonstrate by issuing
>
> points(1,0, cex=10)
>
> HTH
> Petr
>
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Lanre
> >
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>
> Petr Pikal
> petr.pikal at precheza.cz
>
>



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