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Message-ID: <23772.25868.321904.982200@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: 2019-05-15T19:14:20Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: Bug in function boxplot's axis labeling
In-Reply-To: <8689a18f-486b-41d3-22b0-6f82839186d7@beuth-hochschule.de>

>>>>> Ulrike Gr?mping 
>>>>>     on Mon, 6 May 2019 10:09:05 +0200 writes:

    > Dear developeRs, I appreciate that boxplot now labels the
    > axes with variable names per default. However, with
    > argument "horizontal=TRUE" (which I always use), the
    > default axis labels are mixed up, as can e.g. be seen with

    > require(boot) 
    > boxplot(time ~ poison, poisons, horizontal=TRUE)

    > The correct labels would be obtained by

    > boxplot(time ~ poison, poisons, horizontal=TRUE,
    > 		xlab="time", ylab="poison")

    > Best, Ulrike

Yes, indeed.  Thank you, Ulrike, belatedly.

I've committed a corresponding change to R-devel yesterday, svn r 75503,
and will port that to   "R 3.6.0 patched" (so it will make it into R 3.6.1
and all newer versions) in a day or so.

Best,
Martin

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Martin Maechler at R-project.org  &  @ETHZ.ch