[R] exclude data for boxplot stats using mathematical operator

John Kane jrkrideau at yahoo.ca
Mon Oct 26 20:02:45 CET 2009


Perhaps subset the data first?
subset(x, x[,2] >=0)



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> Subject: [R] exclude data for boxplot stats using mathematical operator
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> Received: Monday, October 26, 2009, 3:25 AM
> Readers,
> 
> I have a data set as follows:
> 
> 1,1
> 2,2
> 3,3
> 4,4
> 5,3
> 6,2
> 7,-10
> 8,-9
> 9,-3
> 10,2
> 11,3
> 12,4
> 13,5
> 14,4
> 15,3
> 16,2
> 17,1
> 
> I entered this data set using the command 'read.csv'. I
> want to
> exclude values fewer than zero in column 2 so then I tried
> the
> following command:
> 
> boxplot.stats(x[>0,2],do.conf=FALSE)
> Error: syntax error, unexpected GT, expecting ',' in
> "boxplot.stats(x[>"
> 
> Any help please?
> 
> Yours,
> 
> rhelp at conference.jabber.org
> r 251
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