[R] ggplot2: Boxplot with given box size

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 07:18:54 CEST 2009


Hi Malcolm,

You need to tell geom_boxplot not to use stat_boxplot:
geom_boxplot(aes(lower=y_q1, upper=y_q3, middle=y_med, ymin=y_min,
ymax=y_max), stat = "identity")

Hadley

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Malcolm Ryan<malcolmr at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Is there anyway in ggplot2 to set the aesthetics for a geom_boxplot
> directly, rather than having them computed by an implicit stat_boxplot?
>
> If I try:
>
> ggplot(data = t, aes(x = factor(x))) + geom_boxplot(coef=NULL,
> aes(lower=y_q1, upper=y_q3, middle=y_med, ymin=y_min, ymax=y_max))
>
> I get the error:
>
> Error: stat_boxplot requires the following missing aesthetics: y
>
> Malcolm
>
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