[R] Boxplot width

[Uwe Ligges]

Folks,

?bxp tells you that "width" is about *relative* widths, hence useless.
But it also includes a description of "boxwex" which is the right one to 
use here:

boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200), boxwex=20)


Uwe Ligges


Antje wrote:
> Hi Bert,
> 
> this is the code I already wrote in my first mail:
> 
> d1 <- rnorm(100)
> d2 <- rnorm(150)
> 
> l <- list(d1,d2)
> boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200) )
> 
> Just execute it an see how the boxplots look like.
> 
> I simply don't know how to change the width.
> 
> Compare with:
> boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200), width=c(2.0,2.0) )
> 
> or
> 
> boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200), width=c(50,50) )
> 
> nothing changes. So I'm doing something wrong...
> 
> (Jorges answer in no solution at all to this problem... or I miss 
> something very important...)
> 
> 
> Antje
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bert Gunter schrieb:
>> Have you checked ?bxp where it tells you that width must be a 
>> **vector** of
>> relative widths?
>>
>> It would help if you told us **exactly** what you did in the form of
>> reproducible code as the posting guide requests (see bottom of this
>> message).
>>
>> -- Bert Gunter
>> Genentech
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org 
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
>> Behalf Of Antje
>> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:52 AM
>> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [R] Boxplot width
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> assume that you have data with different sampling like
>>
>> d1 <- rnorm(100)
>> d2 <- rnorm(150)
>>
>> now, I'd like to create two boxplots in one graph but each plot 
>> located at
>> the sampling number at the x-axis. This, I can do with "at"
>>
>> l <- list(d1,d2)
>> boxplot(l, at=c(length(d1), length(d2)), xlim=c(0,200) )
>>
>> but both plots are very thin and I'd like to increase the width of the 
>> plot.
>> I tried "width" but probably I do it wrong.
>>
>> Can anybody help me?
>>
>> Antje
>>
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