On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Göran Broström wrote: >> I want to make illustrations a la boxplot for a data material with >> several groups. Some of the groups are very small, so a boxplot >> doesn't make sense. I would like to use stripchart for these groups. >> On the other hand, some of the groups are very large, so for them >> stripchart isn't so good. So my question is: Is it possible to combine >> boxplots and and stripcharts in one figure? (Of course, in R anything >> is possible, but I mean in a simple way.) Or is there some other good >> alternative for a case like this? >> > > Here's a first approximation. > > library(ISwR) > l <- split(juul$igf1,juul$tanner) > sel <- sapply(l, length) > 100 > boxplot(l[sel],horizontal=TRUE,at=(1:5)[sel], xlim=c(0,6)) > stripchart(l[!sel],at=(1:5)[!sel], add=TRUE)
Elegant, and just what I needed! I had missed the 'at' parameter. Thanks, Göran > The y axis needs a bit more diddling. > > In this case, I actually find that it is quite sufficint to do > > stripchart(igf1 ~ tanner, data=juul, method="jitter", pch=19) > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 > > > -- Göran Broström ______________________________________________ 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.
