Re: [R] Splitting data in to multiple boxplots

2010-09-29 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi, The form of the data is not terribly important neither is whether it was sorted as boxplots are not order dependent are category "a" is "a" sorted or not. See below for individual plots with your new data. # read in data dat <- read.table(textConnection(" 1 a 12 2 b 4 3 a 3 4 c 54 5

Re: [R] Splitting data in to multiple boxplots

2010-09-29 Thread Martyn Byng
Martyn -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of deadlyspider Sent: 29 September 2010 11:02 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Splitting data in to multiple boxplots Ok, I don't think I was specific enough. Th

Re: [R] Splitting data in to multiple boxplots

2010-09-29 Thread deadlyspider
Ok, I don't think I was specific enough. The data originally came in this form 1 a 12 2 b 4 3 a 3 4 c 54 5 a 12 6 b 11 7 c 9 8 c 2 . . . . . . . . . Where I sorted by the second column (NB the second column is the categories and they have long names). I would then like

Re: [R] Splitting data in to multiple boxplots

2010-09-28 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi, There is a very handy feature of boxplot() that will handle this easily. You can write formulae of the form: scores ~ groups For your sample data: # read in data dat <- read.table(textConnection(" id cat value 1 a12 2 a23 3 a14 4 b2 5 b3 6 c9 7 c8