[R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color coded.

Clint Bowman clint at ecy.wa.gov
Tue Dec 15 17:54:26 CET 2015


Martin,

I grew up in the Midwest of the United States--about as native English 
speaker as you could find.  I was taught exactly the same as you have 
learned.

Clint

Clint Bowman			INTERNET:	clint at ecy.wa.gov
Air Quality Modeler		INTERNET:	clint at math.utah.edu
Department of Ecology		VOICE:		(360) 407-6815
PO Box 47600			FAX:		(360) 407-7534
Olympia, WA 98504-7600

         USPS:           PO Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600
         Parcels:        300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503-1274

On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Martin Maechler wrote:

>
>
>   [............]
>
>    > You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot()
>    > command.  Just finish with a ')'
>
> Hmm... I once learned
>
> '()' =: parenthesis/es
> '[]' =: bracket(s)
> '{}' =: brace(s)
>
> Of course, I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher(s) /
> teaching material may have been biased ... but, as all three
> symbol pairs play an important role in R, I think it would be
> really really helpful,  if we could agree on using the same
> precise English here.
>
> I'm happy to re-learn, but I'd really like to end up with three
> different simple English words, if possible.
> (Yes, I know and have seen/heard "curly braces", "round
> parentheses", ... but I'd hope we can do without the extra adjective.)
>
> Thank you, well versed English (or "American") learned readers
> of R-help, for wise guidance on this ...
>
> Martin
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>



More information about the R-help mailing list