[R] Converting numbers to percentages for boxplots

[David Winsemius]

On Nov 15, 2010, at 5:33 PM, daniel carawan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to convert general numbers to percentages in R to create a  
> boxplot for purposes of comparison.
> Can you please tell me how I can do that? My data is attached as a  
> csv file.

No, it's not. Please read the Posting Guide. (.csv is not an accepted  
file extension)


Are you sure you want a box-and-whiskers plot? I would think that an  
exression such as a percentage wouldn't make much sense when plotting  
values that depend on a distribution of raw numbers. Maybe you meant  
barplot?  Nonetheless, let's press on...
print, format, or sprintf can create strings from numbers. Generally  
one would multiply a proportion by 100 and stick a "%" sign after it.  
And usually the labels can be in a form:
bwp1 <- boxplot(count~spray, data = InsectSprays, axes=FALSE,col =  
"lightgray");
axis(2 , at=InsectSprays$count, labels= sprintf("%.1f%%",  
100*InsectSprays$count/sum(InsectSprays$count)) )
# not sure that made any sense.
axis(1 , at=1:6, labels= bwp1$names )

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> Thanks.
>
> Daniel
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT