[R] Boxplot with grouped data

[Peter Flom]

Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote
>
>Is there some way of drawing a boxplot, with R, when one does not have
>the original continuous data, but only the data grouped in classes?
>The function boxplot() can only deal with original data.

It's not clear how the data are, now.  What are the classes? Are they numbers? 

Let's make something up.  Is this what you have and want?

y <- c(rep("0-10", 5), rep("11-20", 10), rep("21-30", 15))

y <- as.ordered(y)
y <- as.numeric(y)
y[y == 1] <- 5
y[y == 2] <- 15.5
y[y == 3] <- 25.5
boxplot(y)

?

Peter


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