[R] violin - like plots for bivariate data

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 15:44:10 CET 2009


Try:

RSiteSearch("violin plot")

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Eric Nord <ericnord at psu.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm attempting to produce something like a violin plot to display how y
> changes with x for members of different groups (My specific case is how
> floral area changes over time for several species of plants). I've looked at
> panel.violin (in lattice), which makes nice violin plots, but is really set
> up to work on a single variable - the area trace represents the frequency of
> each value of x for each group.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone is aware of a function to do this?
>
> I can imagine how to accomplish this using polygon, but I will admit I'm not
> sure what the best way would be to smooth the data. That said, I would
> prefer not to reinvent the wheel!
>
> Thanks in advance for any wisdom you can share!
>
> Eric
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