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

[David Winsemius]

> On Dec 15, 2015, at 9:21 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Dec 15, 2015, at 8:54 AM, Clint Bowman <clint at ecy.wa.gov> wrote:
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>> 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.
> 
> As with your experience, Clint and Martin, but my online experience is that those speaking "English English" often refer to "(" as "brackets". As a result I generally now call them square-brackets to avoid ambiguity.

I intended to say that I call "[" and "]" square-brackets.

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> David.
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>> Clint
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>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Martin Maechler wrote:
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>>> 
>>> [............]
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>> 
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> David Winsemius
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David Winsemius
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