Hi
Mike Bock wrote: > I am looking to create what I would call a "simple variation" on the > boxplot. What I would like to do is to be able to plot the upper and > lower confidence limits as the "box" and the 10th and 90th percentile as > the whiskers. What I have done is write the code to create a dataframe, > the columns of which are the mean, sd, 10th percentile, 90th percentile, > lower confidence limit of the mean, and upper confidence limit of the > mean, the rows are the groups. I have exported this to excel and get the > graph I want by using the stock graphs in excel that plot open, close, > high and low but I would much prefer to do this in R for reason too > numerous to enumerate. > > I have looked high and low and even took a brief look at the bwplot code > in the lattice package. Given my experience level it would take quite a > while for me to modify the bwplot code to get what I want and create a > new graph type, assuming I could get it to work at all. Does anyone know > of an easier way to get what I want, with and example? Lattice, grid, > base, whatever, I don't especially care what tools I need to use. My > only constrante is that I feed it the values required as a dataframe > rather than calculate it on the fly so if we change our minds about UCL > method or percentiles there is no problem. Can you put the Excel-generated version up somewhere for us to see the final output you want? Then we could make some specific suggestions. Paul -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
