Fernando Marmolejo Ramos <fernando.marmolejoramos <at> adelaide.edu.au> writes:
> > Dear R users > > LetÂ’s assume I have the following batches of data > > a <- rnorm(20,200,100) > b <- rnorm(20,250,100) > c <- rnorm(20,300,100) > > # I plot them as violin plots > require(vioplot) > vioplot(a, b, c) > > # I plot them as simple violin plots > require(UsingR) > simple.violinplot(a, b, c) > > # I plot them as boxplots > boxplot(a, b, c) > # I know that for boxplots I can colour them by col=c("white", "blue", "red") > # but this does not work for the other plots > > The question is: > How can I give different colours to each violin plot? > How can I put labels to each violin/boxplot plot instead of the numbers that > appear underneath them? > Short of hacking vioplot (which would be reasonable, the code isn't too complicated), the easiest thing is to set up your own frame for the plot and then use add=TRUE to add the violinplots one at a time ... a <- rnorm(20,200,100) b <- rnorm(20,250,100) c <- rnorm(20,300,100) library(vioplot) ## set up frame, without axes plot(1,1,xlim=c(0,3.5),ylim=range(c(a,b,c)),type="n", xlab="",ylab="",axes=FALSE) ## bottom axis, with user-specified labels axis(side=1,at=1:3,labels=c("first","second","third")) axis(side=2) vioplot(a,at=1,col="blue",add=TRUE) vioplot(b,at=2,col="red",add=TRUE) vioplot(c,at=3,col="magenta",add=TRUE) ______________________________________________ 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.