[R] Again, about boxplot

[stephen sefick]

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On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Adaikalavan Ramasamy
<a.ramasamy at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> I just changed the 'at' argument and added an 'xlim' option.
>
>  boxplot(len ~ dose, data = ToothGrowth,
>          boxwex = 0.25, at = 1:3,
>          subset = which(supp == "VC"), col = "yellow",
>          main = "Guinea Pigs' Tooth Growth",
>          xlab = "Vitamin C dose mg",
>          ylab = "tooth length", xlim=c(1, 6), ylim=c(0, 35), yaxs="i")
>
>  abline(v=3.5)
>
>  boxplot(len ~ dose, data = ToothGrowth, add = TRUE,
>          boxwex = 0.25, at = 1:3 + 3,
>          subset = which(supp == "OJ"), col = "orange")
>
>  legend("bottomright", c("Ascorbic acid", "Orange juice"),
>         fill = c("yellow", "orange"))
>
> Regards, Adai
>
>
>
> cathelf wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for your guys reply for my previous question. But I got one more
>> question about the boxplot. With the code in the R-help:
>>
>> boxplot(len ~ dose, data = ToothGrowth,
>>        boxwex = 0.25, at = 1:3 - 0.2,
>>        subset = supp == "VC", col = "yellow",
>>        main = "Guinea Pigs' Tooth Growth",
>>        xlab = "Vitamin C dose mg",
>>        ylab = "tooth length", ylim = c(0, 35), yaxs = "i")
>> boxplot(len ~ dose, data = ToothGrowth, add = TRUE,
>>        boxwex = 0.25, at = 1:3 + 0.2,
>>        subset = supp == "OJ", col = "orange")
>> legend(2, 9, c("Ascorbic acid", "Orange juice"),
>>       fill = c("yellow", "orange"))
>>
>> I got 6 boxplots, which is ordered as "0.5, 0.5, 1, 1, 2, 2"
>> How can I reorder the 6 boxplots as "0.5, 1, 2,  0.5, 1, 2"?
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>
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