[R] plot or boxplot!

[Uwe Ligges]

Samuel Okoye wrote:
> Hello,
>    
>   if we suppose that
>    
>   times <- c("2006-05-14", "2006-06-12", "2006-06-12", "2006-05-14", "2006-05-14", "2006-06-12")
>   value <- c(2,3,1,4,3,1)
>    
>   then with
>    
>   plot(times, value)
>    
>   we have two boxplots in one graph for 2006-05-14 and 2006-06-12 respectively! Is it possible to have them in a scatterplot? and if I sort the data as
>    
>   x <- data.frame(times, value)
>   x <- x[order(times),]
>    
>   Is it possible to create a new variable which contains 1 for 2006-05-14 and 2 for 2006-06-12?


If you not also want to make it some time/date object, you can simply it 
a factor, hence type

times <- factor(times)

Uwe Ligges


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