something like this? par(mfrow=c(2,2)) boxplot(Sepal.Length~Species,data=iris,main='Sepal Length') boxplot(Sepal.Width~Species,data=iris,main='Sepal Width') boxplot(Petal.Length~Species,data=iris,main='Petal Length') boxplot(Petal.Width~Species,data=iris,main='Petal Width') par(mfrow=c(1,1))
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Geoffrey Stoel <g.st...@hourglazz.com> wrote: > Hopefully I will not be flamed for this on the list, but I am starting out > with R and having some trouble with combining plots. > > I am playing with the famous iris dataset (checking out example dataset in R > while reading through Introduction to datamining) > > What I would like to do is create three graphs (combined boxplots) besides > each other for each of the three species (Setosa, Versicolour and Virginica) > with each graph showing showing four boxplots Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, > Petal.Length and Petal.Width. > > I can create the boxplot for the total dataset by doing the following: > > data(iris); > boxplot(iris[1:4]); > > However I would like to have this repeated for each Species in iris$Species, > I know I can do this with: > > boxplot(subset(iris,Species=="setosa", select = (1:4))); > boxplot(subset(iris,Species=="versicolor", select = (1:4))); > boxplot(subset(iris,Species=="virginica", select = (1:4))); > > but I am lazy AND I want all three to be plotted besides each other AND I > don't want to manually type the Species myself. > > is there an easier way to do this.... probably yes... > > If you want to help me out... would be deeply appreciated.. > > Kind regards, > > Geoffrey > > (new to R and datamining) > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
