[R] using boxplot.stats

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 06/05/2007 5:36 PM, Hugo M.Fernandez Bellon wrote:
> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> escribió:
> 
>> See ?boxplot.stats.  It can't handle a formula argument, it wants a 
>> numeric vector.
> 
> Thanks, had read it three times ... I'll try to use my brain next time!
> 
> 
> So that sparks another question: if boxplot.stats cannot handle formulas, how does it provide the data to boxplot?
> (or else ... where can I read that up?)

I suspect you've got it backwards (though I haven't looked):  boxplot() 
would provide the data to boxplot.stats(), and then look at the returned 
value.

Duncan Murdoch