[R] boxplot with average instead of median

[hadley wickham]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Chad Junkermeier <junkermeier at byu.edu> wrote:
> I really like the ease of use with the boxplot command in R.  I would rather
> have a boxplot that shows the average value and the standard deviation then
> the median value and the quartiles.

I would suggest that you don't do this.  Most people looking at the
boxplots will expect to see the tradition Tukey boxplot with medians
and quartiles, and are likely to misinterpret the graph.

Why do you want to display means and standard deviations?

Hadley


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