[R] adding the mean and standard deviation to boxplots

[John Kane]

This thread may help
http://www.nabble.com/adding-the-mean-and-standard-deviation-to-boxplots-td15271398.html


--- On Wed, 7/23/08, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos <fernando.marmolejoramos at adelaide.edu.au> wrote:

> From: Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos <fernando.marmolejoramos at adelaide.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [R] adding the mean and standard deviation to boxplots
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 2:24 AM
> Dear users
> 
> This is a message I was directing to Harold Baize but
> because I pressed the
> wrong button the message got lost grrrr!!!
> 
> So I’m doing it all over again:
> 
> Lets suppose I have three batches of data:
> 
> a <- rnorm(50,2500,300) 
> b <- rnorm(50,3500,250)
> c <- rnorm(50,4000,200)
> 
> # Now I want to plot them as boxplots and violin plots
> require(vioplot)
> vioplot (a,b,c, horizontal=T, col=“white”)
> boxplot (a,b,c, horizontal=T, col=“white”)
> 
> As we know boxplot show the least-greates values,
> lower-upper quartiles, the
> mean, and outliers (when present).
> 
> However, for some data is not important the MEDIAN but the
> MEAN. Also, it is
> more relevant to show ERROR BARS instead of quartiles. 
> 
> So, how could I see (for the batches of data I introduced
> above)…
> 
> 1.	a boxplot showing the MEAN and the SD instead of the
> lower/upper
> quartile?
> 2.	a boxplot showing the MEAN and the STANDARD ERROR OF THE
> MEAN instead of
> the lower/upper quartile?
> 3.	a boxplot showing the MEAN and the 95% CI instead of the
> lower/upper
> quartile?
> 
> (I think in all these cases is preferable to have visual
> access, or to have
> the line that shows, the LEAST and the GREATEST VALUES.)
> 
> In other words, that the ERROR BARS (95% CI, SD, SE)
> proposed here take the
> place of the boxes usually used to represent the
> lower/upper quartile.
> 
> Now, the big question, is all this jazz possible to be
> implemented in violin
> plots as well?
> 
> How could that be done?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fernando
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