[R] boxplot issue

[Jim Lemon]

On 10/16/2010 12:50 AM, Jonas Josefsson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to produce a graph which shows overlap in latitude for a
> number of species.
>
> I have a dataframe which looks as follows
>
> species1,species2,species3,species4.....
> minlat 6147947,612352,627241,6112791
> maxlat 7542842,723423,745329,7634921
>
>
> I want to produce a graph with one horizontal bar for each species where
> minlat sets minimum value and maxlat sets maximum value for the bar. I
> want all bars to be stacked on top of eachother to show where I have
> overlap.
>
> I have tried using boxplot but it only produces the standard mean and sd
> of the two values...
>
Hi Jonas,
I think you want a Gantt chart (see gantt.chart in plotrix)

Jim