overlay of two sets of boxplots
Hello John, Thanks for your fast answer. I will try to be clearer and more detailed this time. At the moment I am importing a dataframe like below as a '.csv file'. I want to generate a boxplot for M and F values grouped by X whereby boxplots for M and F should be above or very close to each other. Please see attachment for example figure. Till now I have tried a code that looks like the one below the frame (I found it in the graph help of R for boxes close to each other): X M F Exp1 -90.0273224 -77.66531714 Exp1 -73.33333333 -96.36363636 Exp1 -98.24561404 -91.57848325 Exp1 -65.2173913 -59.18367347 Exp1 -98.7654321 -92.42424242 Exp1 -96.42857143 -89.25925926 Exp2 -84.61538462 -47.36842105 Exp2 -43.63636364 -22.37762238 Exp2 -47.5 -33.33333333 Exp2 -55.49450549 -66.66666667
boxplot(
formula = F~Strain,
data = pain,
boxwex = 0.25,
at = 1:38 - 0.1,
subset =supp== "F",
col = "red",
xlab = "Strain",
ylab = " F"
)
boxplot(
formula = M~Strain,
data = pain,
boxwex = 0.25,
at = 1:38 + 0.1,
subset =supp== "M",
col = "orange",
add = TRUE )
...but I did cannot find anywhere what supp means and R cannot read it.
I hope this is explained ok. Any kind of answer would help!
Best
Mirjam
-----Original Message-----
From: John Kane [mailto:jrkrideau at inbox.com]
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 6:00 PM
To: Mirjam Appel; r-help at r-project.org
Subject: RE: [R] overlay of two sets of boxplots
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
At a rough guess you may want to have a look at the mfrow in ?par but without some sample data and a bit more information about what you need it is difficult to suggest more.
By the way dput (see ?dput) is a handy way to supply a sample data set here.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
-----Original Message----- From: appel at neuro.mpg.de Sent: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:27:11 +0000 To: r-help at r-project.org Subject: [R] overlay of two sets of boxplots Hello, I am new to R and currently have the following problem: I have successfully loaded my data in R which consists of two numeric columns (LI_F and female) and one character column (Strain). So far I can plot two different set of boxplots for each of the numeric columns plotted by the groups of the character column and the commands look like that: boxplot(LI_F~Strain, ylab="LI_F", xlab="Strain", data=pain) boxplot(female~Strain, ylab="female", xlab="Strain", data=pain) How can I overlay the two set of boxplots (preferably in different colors), so that I can compare them one by one, meaning two boxplots corresponding to the same character in "Strain" are directly above each other? I have tried a lot of things and would greatly appreciate your help. Best, Mirjam [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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