Dear Gabor, This behaviour makes sense to me, since in the first case the response is quantitative and the explanatory variable a factor (hence, parallel boxplots), while in the second it's vice-versa (hence parallel stacked bars). That is, the primary distinction, I think, isn't the orientation of the axes but the nature of the variables.
Regards, John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 10:49 AM > To: R-devel > Subject: [Rd] plot, spineplot, boxplot in R 2.2.0 > > I noticed, what seened to me, to be odd. These produce a > boxplot in the first case and a spineplot in the second case > in R .2.2.0: > > plot(Sepal.Length ~ Species, iris) > plot(Species ~ Sepal.Length, iris) > > What if one wants to exchange axes? Does the fact that this > seemingly innocuous change result in completely different > graphics make sense? Is it desirable? > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
