[R] BoxPlot basic help

[arun]

Hi,
May be this helps:
dat <- read.table(text="Designation Basic
ASA         .25
ASA         .28
ASA         .32
TASA       .45
TASA       .33
TASA       .43",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) 
 boxplot(Basic~Designation,data=dat,col=2:3)
#or
library(ggplot2)
 ggplot(dat,aes(x=Designation,y=Basic,fill=Designation))+geom_boxplot()

A.K.

Hello - I've been away from stat programming for a very long time and 
am just getting back into it. I'm not used to a non GUI interface which 
is where I'm running into problems with R. 

I have a data set that i'd like to use to create boxplots. 

the dataset sample looks as follows 

Designation Basic 
ASA         .25 
ASA         .28 
ASA         .32 
TASA       .45 
TASA       .33 
TASA       .43 

I have my grouping variable under 'designation' that i would like to use to create the boxplot. 

Could i request some help on the syntax to use after i have read
 this data file into a variable, say 'data' to group the information as 
per the grouping variable ? how do i define the grouping variable and 
use it in the boxplot command ? 

Any information would be greatly appreciated. in addition, if 
you could also point me to some basic training guides, that would be 
helpful as well. 

Thanks! 

Raol