[R] categorical vs numerical

P Ehlers ehlers at ucalgary.ca
Sat Dec 5 04:27:17 CET 2009


If your group sizes are not too large, I would use jittered stripcharts.
They're more informative than boxplots and much less subject to
misinterpretation. One warning, I'm not fond of the default pch=0.

 -Peter Ehlers

DispersionMap wrote:
> What ways are there to plot categorical vs numerical data in R.
>
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> I have two columns: one with categorical data in 5 categories a,b,c,d,e, and
> a numerical column with integers between 1 and 100.
>
> I have used a boxplot with a,b,c,d,e on the x-axis and an increasing
> numerical scale on the y-axis. This look fine but im looking for other ways
> to present the data.
>
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> What other ways can i do this???
>




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