[R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color coded.

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Mon Dec 14 22:54:35 CET 2015


> On Dec 14, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Dmitri Leybman <dleybman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a spreadsheet with five different columns standing for five
> different variables:
> 
> Variable 1 Variable 2 Variable 3 Variable 4 Variable 5 0 0 7 1 0 0 0 7 0 0 1
> 1 8 2 0 5 5 8 0 0 1 4 8 1 0 4 5 8 0 0 0 1 7 2 1
> I am trying to create five box and whiskers plots on a single graph with a
> five x-label ticks named for each one of
> the variables along with color coding. The names for the x-label would be
> "Meeting"[ pertains to Variable1] "Meeting2"[pertains to Variable 2]
> Meeting3[pertains to Variable 3], Meeting4[pertains to Variable4],
> Meeting5[pertains to Variable5].
> 
> I have tried:
> 
> boxplot(data, las = 2, col =
> c("red", "blue", "black", "aquamarine1", "darkorange3")
> , at = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), par(mar = c(12, 5, 4, 2) + 0.1),
> names = c("Meeting 1", "'Meeting2",
                         ^
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> "Meeting3", "Meeting4","Meeting5")
> 
> 
> Error: unexpected string constant in:
> "boxplot(data, las=2, col= c('red', 'blue', 'red', 'red', red')
> boxplot(data, las=2, col= c('"
> 
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David Winsemius
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