On 28 February 2017 at 14:11 Ashley Patton via R-help
<r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
Hi, please forgive me but I am completely new to R and have no experience
with it other than a 3 day training course but I need to use it for an urgent
project and don't have time to learn a whole new language before the deadline,
although I hope to get there soon.
My question is this. I have a dataset in Excel containing data from 20
sites. The data comes from loggers recording every half hour for a year. So my
Excel file has 20 columns each with the name of the site as the header and
each column contains the data recorded throughout the year. What I want to do
is show the variation in that data at each site. So I would have a boxplot
showing site 1, site 2, site 3... etc across the x axis and then the variable
data (which in this case in air temperature) on the y axis so I can see what
range in temperatures occurred throughout the year, what where the max, min,
outliers etc. I have trawled the Internet looking for a code that will allow
me to do this but all I can find is plots that refer to data where you are
looking at a range in data with a category (like range in mpg with cylinder
size) whereas I want to so look at the data for all of my sites just on one
plot. I know this is possible because I have seen it down by someone else b!
ut I don't know where to start. Does anyone have any code that would do
this or at least know where I could go? Like I say, I am a complete begging so
writing code is a brand new thing for me. Many, many thanks to anyone who
helps me with this one.
Many thanks
A
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