On 17.04.2011 13:08, Paul Raftery wrote:
Hi all, I'm just getting started with R and I would appreciate some help. I'm having trouble creating a boxplot with whiskers at the 95th and 5th percentiles instead of at 1.5 * IQR. I have read the relevant documentation, and checked existing mails on this topic. I found a small modification that should work : https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2001-November/016817.html and tried to implement it. Basically, it says to replace boxplot.stats with: myboxplot.stats<- function (x, coef = NULL, do.conf = TRUE, do.out = TRUE) { nna<- !is.na(x) n<- sum(nna) stats<- quantile(x, c(.05,.25,.5,.75,.95), na.rm = TRUE) iqr<- diff(stats[c(2, 4)]) out<- x< stats[1] | x> stats[5] conf<- if (do.conf) stats[3] + c(-1.58, 1.58) * diff(stats[c(2, 4)])/sqrt(n) list(stats = stats, n = n, conf = conf, out = x[out& nna]) } I entered the new function, and used fix(boxplot.default) to modify boxplot.default so that it references myboxplot.stats instead of the original boxplot.stats function. If I now type boxplot.default, I can see that the code has been modified as expected. However, I get the exact same result as before when I create a boxplot - it shows the whiskers at 1.5 * IQR. You can test this out by creating a boxplot from the iris dataset supplied with R using boxplot(iris$Sepal.Length ~ iris$Species). You see that the boxplot is the same before and after the fix. Does anybody know why this occurs, and how I can get around this issue?
Frank answered how to solve it using his functions. In order to do it your way, you need to change the boxplot.default function within its NAMESPACE, e.g. using fixInNamespace.
Otherwise you could also just call z <- boxplot(....) then modify the relevant parts of the object z and plot it using bxp(z) afterwards. Best, Uwe
Thanks,
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