On 5/10/2007, at 3:39 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear R list members
> I am trying to improve a boxplot with 2 data sets. I run somethinkg
> like
>
> boxplot(data1 ~ month, add=F, col = "red", ...)
> boxplot(data2 ~ month, add=T, col = "blue", ...)
>
> The problem is that the data from February are missing for data2, so R
> think that must take little more space between the data classes in
> data 2
> and then both data gropus are not aligned. In the R documentation I
> do not
> find any posile solution for tell R that I want reserve a extra
> space for
> this month, So the boxplot is erroneous and the x axis have a strange
> numeration
>
> 1 2 3 4 54 65 76 ... etc
>
> I would be grateful if anyone could suggest how to tell R That the
> boxplots must be fitted to the same x class in both data groups. To
> make
> a false data group with a 0 valor for february is not aceptable in
> this
> case
Your example is a bit confusing --- it must be ***month*** that
February is missing from,
not data2!!! --- but basically if you make month into a ***factor***
with levels equal to
the complete set of months, then boxplot() will leave a gap for any
month that is missing.
E.g.
clyde <- rnorm(100)
melvin <- sample(letters[1:4],100,TRUE)
melvin[melvin=="b"] <- "c"
melvin <- factor(melvin,levels=letters[1:4])
boxplot(clyde ~ melvin)
leaves a gap (an empty boxplot as it were) for b, and labels the x
axis with "a", "b", "c", and "d".
BTW --- ``add'' and ``col'' do not seem to be arguments for boxplot().
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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