It would seem that simply running the boxplot on the relevent numbers will
give you a boxplot (Assuming you are not beyond the fences).


set.seed(10)
x = rnorm(100)

boxplot(x)
boxplot(summary(x)[-4])


# If beyond the fences - it won't work
set.seed(10)
x = c(rnorm(100), 10)

boxplot(x)
boxplot(summary(x)[-4])

Cheers,
Tal
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Matthew Vernon <M.C.Vernon@warwick.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to produce box-and-whisker plots given that I have the
> median, interquartile and 5/95th centile values, but not the data from
> which they come? It seems that it ought to be possible to coerce bxp
> to do what I want, but I can't quite see how.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew
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> University of Warwick
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