[R] Creating a box plot with whiskers when I only have mean, sd and n

[Jim Lemon]

On 03/14/2014 06:52 AM, Frederik Borup wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to create a boxplot with whiskers. I want to compare several
> studies. For each study I have
>
>     1. mean
>     2. standard deviation (sd)
>     3. name
>     4. number of observations (n)
>
> How can i do this in R ?
>
> normally I would type
>> bxp
> or
>> boxplot
>
> but this is not allowed when I only know mean and sd
>
>
Hi Frederik,
You may want box.heresy in the plotrix package.

Jim