[R] Visualize quartiles of plot line

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 12:15:15 CEST 2007


How about quantile regression?  Have a look at
http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/stat_quantile.html for some examples of what
that might look like.

Hadley

On 6/16/07, Arne Brutschy <abr-r-project at xylon.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently using a simple plot to visualize some mean values. I'm
> having ~200 datapoints on the x-axis, each has 10 records. I'm
> currently plotting only the mean value of each of the datapoints.
>
> What I need is a way to visualize the quartiles/error/whatever of
> these points. I thought about boxplots, but I have to many points on
> the xaxis - it would be impossible to see anything. I though that it
> would be nice to have a "hull" around each line, indicate the width of
> the quartiles, visualized by a different background. It's like a very
> wide boxplot with a changing mean value...
>
> Is this possible with r? Does anyone know what I mean and/or has done
> this before?
>
> Thanks
> Arne
>
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