[R] Boxplot BUT with Mean, SD, Max & Min ?

[Petr PIKAL]

> 
> Gabor, Bill,
> 
> 
> On 2011-09-27 02:51, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> 
> > wrote:
> >> Gabor,
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2011-09-27 00:35, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Philip Rhoades 
> >>> <phil at pricom.com.au>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> People,
> >>>>
> >>>> It appears that there is no way of getting Boxplots to plot using 
> >>>> Mean,
> >>>> SD,
> >>>> Max & Min - is there something else that would do what I want?  I
> >>>> couldn't
> >>>> find it . .

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> 
> 
> Interesting! - I've learnt something about anscombe and sapply and 
> other stuff (thanks again!) but I think I mis-spoke before.  I think 
> what I want is a list of numeric vectors but when I created tarr:
> 
>    tarr <- array( dim = c( 5,3 ), c( 1,2,3,4,5,2,3,4,5,6,3,4,5,6,7 ) )
> 
> I couldn't get it to work with the original code . . now I have had a 
> closer look at Bill's code . .
> 
> On the original question though, why isn't there something "off the 
> shelf" that will do what I want?  Surely, a "boxplot" using mean, SD, 
> max and min would be a common enough need to justify it?

It is questionable. I use boxplots to demonstrate that underlaying data 
are more or less symmetrical or deviate from symetrical (normal) 
distribution. Boxplot with mean, sd are, in this respect, rather unusable. 


I would call such plots differently let say "meanplot" or "centralplot" to 
avoid confusion with real boxplot.

My 0.02 Kc

Regards
Petr

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> -- 
> Philip Rhoades
> 
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> E-mail:  phil at pricom.com.au
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