[R] Boxplot function error-help required

John Kane jrkrideau at inbox.com
Fri Jun 12 01:58:39 CEST 2015


Thanks Don,

I suspected there was a Boxplot() out there by was too lazy to look.  I still don't see how the original code would work if label only had onevalue but I must admit what Boxplot() is actually doing is still confusing me.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: macqueen1 at llnl.gov
> Sent: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:44:39 +0000
> To: kris.singh at research.uwa.edu.au, r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Boxplot function error-help required
> 
> In addition to the other answers, I would suggest that the next time you
> get the "could not find function" message, try like this:
> 
>  help.search('Boxplot')
> 
> Among the output from that you should see
> 
>   graphics::boxplot                         Box Plots
> 
> which should lead you to "boxplot" instead of "Boxplot".
> 
> 
> You may see considerably more output from help.search(), depending on
> what
> packages you have installed. For example, when I did it, I found that the
> car package has a function named "Boxplot".
> 
> -Don
> 
> 
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> Don MacQueen
> 
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> 
> 
> On 6/11/15, 4:20 AM, "Kris Singh" <kris.singh at research.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> >Dear Sirm/Madam,
>> 
> >Just wondering if someone could help me.  I've tried running a code on R
> >and the code includes the following:
>> 
>>> Boxplot(~Acc_S$Acc, label=Acc_S$Subj)
>> 
> >But I receive the following  error message:
>> 
> >*Error: could not find function "Boxplot"*
>> 
> >I have tried installing all the packages but keep getting teh same error
> >message.  The code runs on my supervisors R program and produces a
> >boxplot,
> >but doesn't on mine and am wondering if someone could assist me.
>> 
> >Thanks in advance,
> >Kris
>> 
> >--
> >*Kris Singh*
> >Provisional Psychologist
>> 
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