[R] Removing lower whisker in boxplot to see the effects of the high values

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 29, 2012, at 12:46 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

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> On Sep 29, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Meredith Ballard LaBeau wrote:
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>> David: 
>> I set this up and it still seems to plot the same:
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>> maumnf_plot<-boxplot(log_loads~ind,data=nfmaum, horizontal=TRUE, notch=T, outline=FALSE, whisker=0, main="Maumee River Near Future Climate Scenarios", ylab="Log Load",xlab="Climate Scenarios")
>> maumnf_plot$stats[-1,] (to remove the lower whiskers)
>> bxp(maumnf_plot)
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>> this does not remove the whiskers....is there something I am missing in bxp?
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> I said to replace the whisker value with the hinge value:
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> maumnf_plot<-boxplot(log_loads~ind,data=nfmaum )
> # only need the data to get the stats
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> maumnf_plot$stats[1,] <- maumnf_plot$stats[2,]
> # Replaced whisker row with hinge row
> # The graphics arguments to bxp need to be in the second call. 
> # They won't be carried over from the sats
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> bxp(maumnf_plot, , horizontal=TRUE, notch=T, outline=FALSE, whisker=0, main="Maumee River Near Future Climate Scenarios", ylab="Log Load",xlab="Climate Scenarios")

I do now notice that there is an extraneous comma in that call that will throw an error if allowed to persist.
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> -- 
> David
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>> Thanks
>> Meredith
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>> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:46 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Sep 29, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Meredith Ballard LaBeau wrote:
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>>> Good Afternoon-
>>> I was wanting to alter the boxplot to remove the lower whisker, both the
>>> whisker line and staple just on the lower end. Is there a way to do this?
>>> As my code is currently:
>>> boxplot(log_loads~ind,data=nfmaum, horizontal=TRUE, notch=T, outline=FALSE,
>>> whisker=0, main="Maumee River Near Future Climate Scenarios", ylab="Log
>>> Load",xlab="Climate Scenarios")
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>> If you altered the value in what is passed from `boxplot.stats` to `bxp` so the lower whisker value was the same as the lower hinge value The lower whisker would merge into the hinge. `boxplot` returns those stats-values invisibly, so you just assign to an object name, make your changes and pass back to bxp.
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>>> I just want to better see the medians and high end tail.
>>> 
>>> 
>> --
>> 
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> Alameda, CA, USA
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>> -- 
>> Doctoral Candidate
>> Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
>> Michigan Technological University
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> David Winsemius, MD
> Alameda, CA, USA
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David Winsemius, MD
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