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

[Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)]

Which is why England and the United States have been described as two countries divided  by a common language.  (Could probably throw Scotland and Australia, and  others, into the mix as well ... notice the parethenses, or nice round brackets, or  ?  :-}  )

Dan

Daniel Nordlund, PhD
Research and Data Analysis Division
Services & Enterprise Support Administration
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services


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From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dmitri Leybman
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 3:28 PM
To: peter dalgaard
Cc: r-help at r-project.org; Martin Maechler
Subject: Re: [R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color coded.

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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