Yep. I would like to pass in a list of lists, where each sublist (or array) describes a boxplot to plot.
Meanwhile, i've been having fun with histograms. The Y axis labels are a pain. I think defaulting to scientific notation, as matplotlib frequently does, is annoying... ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ...... Original Message ....... On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:02:28 -1000 "Eric Firing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pierre GM wrote: >>> And for the work I'm doing, I have a >>> different number of observations and data points on different days, >>> so it's a pain that the current boxplot infrastructure expects all of >>> the boxes to be in a single array. Hence my questions. >> >> Ah OK, now I get it. Sorry for being a bit slow today. >> So yes, there's a problem here. The sequence is transformed into an array >> with 'asarray', which obviously won't work if you have different sizes of >> dataset. >> >> But there's a trick, tested on numpy: >> >> import numpy >> set1 = (rand(50)+1) * 100 >> set2 = (rand(25)+2) * 100 >> data = array([set1,set2], dtype=numpy.object_) >> boxplot(data,positions=[732659.,732660.]) >> >> The trick here is to force the data as objects, and not as floats. Your >> array >> is in fact an array of arrays of different sizes. That's enough to fool >> asarray. > >It sounds like the real problem is that the initial use of asarray in >boxplot is a bug--it should transparently support an object array, as >you suggest (but numpy only), or an ordinary array, *or* a list or tuple >of data vectors, and all this should be clear in the docstring and the >example. Correct? I hope so, because I have made the change in svn. >(Well, maybe not enough changes to the example yet.) > >Eric > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
