[R] Horizontal Boxplot

[Mark Myatt]

Dragón <dragon379 at yahoo.es> writes:

>  I'm just a beginner trying to draw a boxplot and I don't know why every time
>I try to make it horizontal I receive the error message "parameter
>'horizontal' couldn't be set in high-level plot() function". Can anybody give
>me an advice?
>  Here is the code:
>
>opar <- par(ask = interactive() && (.Device == "X11" || .Device == "windows"))
># For source
>
>#pictex(file = "graf.tex", bg = "white", fg = "black", width = 4, height = 4,
>debug = FALSE)
>par(bg="cornsilk")
>n <- 2
>g <- c(452, 395, 317, 254, 202)
>x <- c(590, 497, 414, 326, 276)
>
>boxplot(g,x,horizontal=T)
>title(main="Gross weekly earnings", ylab="Pounds", font.main=4, font.lab=1)
>#dev.off()

Works OK on my boxes running R 1.3.1 on Win98 and Linux (SuSe 7.3).
Perhaps you have an older or test version.

Mark

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