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

[Dmitri Leybman]

Apologies for the HTML.

This is the initial snippet of the values:

Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4 Var5
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
5 1 7 0 0
2 4 9 0 1
1 2 9 2 NA
1 5 7 1 0
4 1 8 0 0
2 7 7 1 0
7 7 6 2 NA
5 2 7 0 0
0 1 7 0 4
1 3 8 1 0
1 5 7 2 0
7 2 8 0 0
7 0 8 2 0
7 5 8 2 0
2 0 9 1 0
1 6 8 1 0
3 4 7 0 2



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("Meeting1", "Meeting2", "Meeting3", "Meeting4","Meeting5")


and have gotten a '+' at the end meaning I am missing something.


I used a modify version of the code I found on R-Help for Box-Whiskers plot
formation <http://www.r-bloggers.com/box-plot-with-r-tutorial/>


The code this blogger used was

       boxplot(data, ylab =“Oxigen (%)”, xlab =“Time”, las = 2,

       col =
 c(“red”,“sienna”,“palevioletred1″,“royalblue2″,“red”,“sienna”,“palevioletred1″,

       “royalblue2″,“red”,“sienna”,“palevioletred1″,“royalblue2″),

        at = c(1,2,3,4,  6,7,8,9, 11,12,13,14), par(mar = c(12, 5, 4, 2) +
0.1),

        names = c(“Station 1″,“Station 2″,“Station 3″,“Station 4″,“Station


        1″,“Station 2″,“Station 3″,“Station 4″,“Station 1″,“Station
2″,“Station

         3″,“Station 4″))


I am trying to use the code above to create a five different
box-and-whiskers plots color-coded. I don't need the "Station 1" or
"Station 2" labels but I used this code as a starting point for the code I
wanted write.  .


I wanted the y-axis to read "Number of People Attended" instead of "Oxigen
(%)"


and the x-axis to refer to the particular meeting in question:


   Meeting1, Meeting2, Meeting3, Meeting4, Meeting5


which corresponds to variables var1, var2, var3, var4, var5.


Each of the box and whiskers would show the median number, along with
interquartile values, of each of these Meetings. The color coding is not
necessarily but I think would make it a bit easier to read for observers.

I apologize again for the convoluted reply and the HTML error.


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:42 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 14 Dec 2015, at 22:54 , David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 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",
> >                         ^
> > Extra single quote about here
> >
>
> Hmm, at face value, that should just become part of the label...
>
> >
> >> "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('"
>
>
> ...but the error message doesn't match the input, which is lacking a right
> parenthesis. So is there a previous incomplete command maybe, or are we
> just being shown random snippets of things that didn't work??
>
> I think we need to see a full transcript
>
>
> >>
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> ...and PLEASE in plain text, not HTML.
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