[R] Question about plotting data points in box plots

[John Fox]

Dear George,

You could use jitter(x) in place of x to randomly perturb the horizontal
coordinates. See ?jitter for details.

I hope this helps,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox


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> Subject: [R] Question about plotting data points in box plots
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am plotting my data as side by side box plots.
> Could somebody tell me how I can plot the points from which the box plots
are
> derived inside the box plots?
> I imagine some use of the plot(x,y) function with x = the data and y =
> location of box plot, but how do I distribute the points about the
vertical
> rather than have them show up all on one vertical axis?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> George Chen
> 
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