[R] what's wrong with plot(..., type="p")?

Peter Ehlers ehlers at ucalgary.ca
Tue Apr 26 12:26:52 CEST 2011


On 2011-04-26 03:08, Ivan Calandra wrote:
> Dear users,
>
> I'm trying to get a dot plot but always end up with a boxplot. Can
> someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
>
> df<- structure(list(FACETTE = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L,
> + 2L, 2L), .Label = c("base", "tip"), class = "factor"), Sq = c(274836,
> + 0.74182, 0.709205, 0.984552, 279869, 255712, 26566, 301464)), .Names =
> c("FACETTE",
> + "Sq"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 6L,
> + 7L, 8L, 9L))
>
> with(df, plot(Sq~FACETTE, type="p"))
> with(df, plot(Sq~FACETTE, type="n"))
>
> I get boxplots in both cases. What should I do to get points instead of
> boxes?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Ivan
>

Are you looking for stripchart()?

Peter Ehlers



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