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

[Dmitri Leybman]

Not a problem at all. I figured the motley crue here couldn't be bracketed
into narrow categories.

An apparent thesis demonstrated here would be that we all speak a slightly
different form of English.

:)

On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 16 Dec 2015, at 17:42 , Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Martin Maechler
> >> <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   [............]
> >>>
> >>>> You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot()
> >>>> command.  Just finish with a ')'
> >>>
> >>> Hmm... I once learned
> >>>
> >>> '()' =: parenthesis/es
> >>> '[]' =: bracket(s)
> >>> '{}' =: brace(s)
> >>>
> >>> Of course, I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher(s) /
> >>> teaching material may have been biased ... but, as all three
> >>> symbol pairs play an important role in R, I think it would be
> >>> really really helpful,  if we could agree on using the same
> >>> precise English here.
> >>>
> >>> I'm happy to re-learn, but I'd really like to end up with three
> >>> different simple English words, if possible.
> >>> (Yes, I know and have seen/heard "curly braces", "round
> >>> parentheses", ... but I'd hope we can do without the extra adjective.)
> >>
> >> I think this is what Americans are taught, but I can never remember
> >> which is which. I use round brackets, square brackets, and squiggly
> >> brackets, which are memorable, and even if you're not familiar with
> >> the terms you can easily understand what I mean.
> >
> > I should mention that all three terms have accompanying arm motions ;)
> >
>
> I just wonder whether the original poster managed to brace himself for the
> oncoming avalanche....
>
> -pd
>
> > Hadley
> >
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