[R] Adding number of non-NAs to boxplot

John Kane jrkrideau at yahoo.ca
Mon Apr 21 21:19:32 CEST 2008


Have a look at the addtable2plot function in the
plotrix package.

It should do what you want. 
--- stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:

>  boxplot(x[,c(2,15,28,41,54,67,80,93,106)],
> ylab="mg/s", names=c("RM215",
> "RM202", "RM198", "RM190", "RM185", "RM179",
> "RM148", "RM119", "RM61"))
> 
> this is the code I am using to make a standard box
> plot.  Is there a way to
> get the number of NA observations plotted onto the
> graph easily.  I can
> always go in and extract the numbers and add them
> into the boxplot from the
> output of boxplot
> 
> d <- boxplot(x[,c(2,15,28,41,54,67,80,93,106)],
> ylab="mg/s",
> names=c("RM215", "RM202", "RM198", "RM190", "RM185",
> "RM179", "RM148",
> "RM119", "RM61"))
> 
> d$n
> 
> 
> 
> then I am still confused how to get this information
> into the graph I could
> use a legend but that seems suboptimal-  I would
> like to have them under the
> names like
> 
> RM215
> n=24
> 
> I can provide data, but this seems more of a graph
> construction question
> than an analysis one.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Stephen
> 
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