I would be helpful if you provided a more complete, reproducible example.
 Consider the following code.  It colors the boxes according to the first 47
colors listed in the color() vector.

-tgs

data<-as.data.frame(matrix(rnorm(47*23),ncol=47))
boxplot(data,col=colors()[1:47])




On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:22 PM, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA <
anjan.purkayastha@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a data set of 47 columns. I would like to create a boxplot for each
> column, each boxplot of a different colour.
> So I created a vector "col1". This vector has a subset of the colors
> returned by color()- "red", "cyan", "green" etc.
> Now I use the command: boxplot(dataset, col= col1) expecting to see 47
> boxplots, each of a different colour.
> Here is the problem: the boxplots are drawn correctly but it seems that
> only
> the first few colours in col1 are being used in a repeated pattern.
> Anybody has any ideas on how to tackle this?
> Thanks in advance,
> Anjan
>
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