[R] horizontal violin plots?

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On 10/26/05, Karin Lagesen <karin.lagesen at medisin.uio.no> wrote:
>
> I am trying to make horizontal violin plots. I have tried both vioplot
> and simple.violinplot, but both of them seem to not be willing to take
> the horizontal option. Is this correct, or am I just bungling it
> somehow?
>
> For instance, for vioplot (from the example shown, with the horizontal
> modification):
>
>
> > vioplot(bimodal,uniform,normal, horizontal=TRUE)
> Error in median(data) : need numeric data

One possibility is to use lattice instead, see e.g.

library(lattice)
example(panel.violin)

HTH,
Deepayan