[R] why are my multiple box & whisker plots so small?

[Francisco J. Zagmutt]

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You probably want to use the lattice package i.e.

library(lattice)
?bwplot


Francisco


Ellen Husain wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm sure this is reallly basic, but I just can get it to work. I want to
> plot six box & whisker plots together to make one figure so that they
> appear one below the next.
> 
> I can do this using >par(mfrow=c(6,1)), but each box&whisker plots end up
> vertically compressed to the point where I can't see the actual bars, and
> there is a large amount of white space between each one.
> 
>  I have tried reducing the margins using "mar", but nothing happens. I've
> also tried using "plt" to make the plot area bigger, but this has no
> effect either.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Ellen.
> 
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