[R] How to reduce the (whitespace) gap between boxplots

[Neha gupta]

Ah Ok, thank you so much again for your help.

Best regards

On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 10:42 PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:

> Make your xlim values narrower, as I showed you!
>
> Alternatively, you could also us the "boxwex" parameter passed to
> bxp() like this:
>
> boxplot(RF,Ranger, SVM, KNN, DT, range = 0,  col=colors,
>         at = seq(1:5), boxwex = .5,
>         names= c("RF","Ranger", "SVM", "KNN", "DT"),main="Degree of
> consistency
> with default and optimized settings")
>
> -- Bert
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 1:33 PM Neha gupta <neha.bologna90 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you so much.
> >
> > When I modify this, like the following
> >
> > xlim = c(.2,4.2),
> >
> > The spaces between boxplots are reduced but the main box (the container)
> remains the same which still takes space. Can I reduce the size of the main
> box (which contains all the boxplots) to take less space.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 10:25 PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 1. Typo: should be "KNN = (your data)"  -- not "knn"
> >>
> >> You specified at.x, but failed to use it.  You need to specify the
> >> "at" parameter of boxplot() and probably also "xlim" (which is passed
> >> down to bxp(), the function that actually draws the plot).
> >>
> >> e.g.
> >>
> >> boxplot(RF,Ranger, SVM, KNN, DT, range = 0, boxwex = 0.2, col=colors,
> >> at = seq(1,3,by = .5), xlim = c(.8,3.2),
> >>         names= c("RF","Ranger", "SVM", "KNN", "DT"),main="Degree of
> consistency
> >> with default and optimized settings")
> >>
> >> Modify to your taste.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Bert
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 12:06 PM Neha gupta <neha.bologna90 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > I have the following code to display boxplots. The problem is it has
> a wide
> >> > space (gap) between them which takes a lot of space on paper. How can
> I
> >> > reduce the size so that it takes less time in a word document.
> >> >
> >> > RF= c(81.8, 81.8, 42.8, 42.8, 100, 53.8)
> >> > Ranger= c(66.6, 81.8, 81.8, 33.3, 81.8, 53.8)
> >> > SVM= c(81.8, 66.6, 81.8, 53.8, 81.8, 66.6 )
> >> > knn= c(17.64, 33.33, 42.8, 25, 53.84, 17.64)
> >> > DT= c(33.3 , 66.6, 33.3, 66.6, 33.3, 25)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > colors = rep("green",6)
> >> > at.x <- seq(1,by=.4, length.out = 10)
> >> > boxplot(RF,Ranger, SVM, KNN, DT, range = 0, boxwex = 0.2, col=colors,
> >> > names= c("RF","Ranger", "SVM", "KNN", "DT"),main="Degree of
> consistency
> >> > with default and optimized settings")
> >> >
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