Draw Box Plots from Summaries - R Documentation

`bxp` Draw Box Plots from Summaries

Description

bxp draws box plots based on the given summaries in z. It is usually called from within boxplot, but can be invoked directly.

Usage

bxp(z, notch = FALSE, width = NULL, varwidth = FALSE,
    outline = TRUE, notch.frac = 0.5, log = "",
    border = par("fg"), pars = NULL, frame.plot = axes,
    horizontal = FALSE, ann = TRUE,
    add = FALSE, at = NULL, show.names = NULL,
    ...)

Arguments

`z`	a list containing data summaries to be used in constructing the plots. These are usually the result of a call to `boxplot`, but can be generated in any fashion.
`notch`	if `notch` is `TRUE`, a notch is drawn in each side of the boxes. If the notches of two plots do not overlap then the medians are significantly different at the 5 percent level.
`width`	a vector giving the relative widths of the boxes making up the plot.
`varwidth`	if `varwidth` is `TRUE`, the boxes are drawn with widths proportional to the square-roots of the number of observations in the groups.
`outline`	if `outline` is not true, the outliers are not drawn.
`notch.frac`	numeric in (0,1). When `notch = TRUE`, the fraction of the box width that the notches should use.
`border`	character or numeric (vector), the color of the box borders. Is recycled for multiple boxes. Is used as default for the `boxcol`, `medcol`, `whiskcol`, `staplecol`, and `outcol` options (see below).
`log`	character, indicating if any axis should be drawn in logarithmic scale, as in `plot.default`.
`frame.plot`	logical, indicating if a ‘frame’ (`box`) should be drawn; defaults to `TRUE`, unless `axes = FALSE` is specified.
`horizontal`	logical indicating if the boxplots should be horizontal; default `FALSE` means vertical boxes.
`ann`	a logical value indicating whether the default annotation (title and x and y axis labels) should appear on the plot.
`add`	logical, if true add boxplot to current plot.
`at`	numeric vector giving the locations where the boxplots should be drawn, particularly when `add = TRUE`; defaults to `1:n` where `n` is the number of boxes.
`show.names`	Set to `TRUE` or `FALSE` to override the defaults on whether an x-axis label is printed for each group.
`pars,...`	graphical parameters (etc) can be passed as arguments to this function, either as a list (`pars`) or normally(`...`), see the following. (Those in `...` take precedence over those in `pars`.) Currently, `yaxs` and `ylim` are used ‘along the boxplot’, i.e., vertically, when `horizontal` is false, and `xlim` horizontally. `xaxt`, `yaxt`, `las`, `cex.axis`, and `col.axis` are passed to `axis`, and `main`, `cex.main`, `col.main`, `sub`, `cex.sub`, `col.sub`, `xlab`, `ylab`, `cex.lab`, and `col.lab` are passed to `title`. In addition, `axes` is accepted (see `plot.window`), with default `TRUE`. The following arguments (or `pars` components) allow further customization of the boxplot graphics. Their defaults are typically determined from the non-prefixed version (e.g., `boxlty` from `lty`), either from the specified argument or `pars` component or the corresponding `par` one. boxwex: a scale factor to be applied to all boxes. When there are only a few groups, the appearance of the plot can be improved by making the boxes narrower. The default depends on `at` and typically is 0.8. staplewex, outwex: staple and outlier line width expansion, proportional to box width; both default to 0.5. boxlty, boxlwd, boxcol, boxfill: box outline type, width, color, and fill color (which currently defaults to `col` and will in future default to `par("bg")`). medlty, medlwd, medpch, medcex, medcol, medbg: median line type, line width, point character, point size expansion, color, and background color. The default `medpch = NA` suppresses the point, and `medlty = "blank"` does so for the line. Note that `medlwd` defaults to 3x the default `lwd`. whisklty, whisklwd, whiskcol: whisker line type (default: `"dashed"`), width, and color. staplelty, staplelwd, staplecol: staple (= end of whisker) line type, width, and color. outlty, outlwd, outpch, outcex, outcol, outbg: outlier line type, line width, point character, point size expansion, color, and background color. The default `outlty = "blank"` suppresses the lines and `outpch = NA` suppresses points.

Value

An invisible vector, actually identical to the at argument, with the coordinates ("x" if horizontal is false, "y" otherwise) of box centers, useful for adding to the plot.

Note

When add = FALSE, xlim now defaults to xlim = range(at, *) + c(-0.5, 0.5). It will usually be a good idea to specify xlim if the "x" axis has a log scale or width is far from uniform.

Author(s)

The R Core development team and Arni Magnusson (then at U Washington) who has provided most changes for the box*, med*, whisk*, staple*, and out* arguments.

References

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

Examples

require(stats)
set.seed(753)
(bx.p <- boxplot(split(rt(100, 4), gl(5, 20))))
op <- par(mfrow =  c(2, 2))
bxp(bx.p, xaxt = "n")
bxp(bx.p, notch = TRUE, axes = FALSE, pch = 4, boxfill = 1:5)
bxp(bx.p, notch = TRUE, boxfill = "lightblue", frame.plot = FALSE,
    outline = FALSE, main = "bxp(*, frame.plot= FALSE, outline= FALSE)")
bxp(bx.p, notch = TRUE, boxfill = "lightblue", border = 2:6,
    ylim = c(-4,4), pch = 22, bg = "green", log = "x",
    main = "... log = 'x', ylim = *")
par(op)
op <- par(mfrow = c(1, 2))

## single group -- no label
boxplot (weight ~ group, data = PlantGrowth, subset = group == "ctrl")
## with label
bx <- boxplot(weight ~ group, data = PlantGrowth,
              subset = group == "ctrl", plot = FALSE)
bxp(bx, show.names=TRUE)
par(op)


z <- split(rnorm(1000), rpois(1000, 2.2))
boxplot(z, whisklty = 3, main = "boxplot(z, whisklty = 3)")

## Colour support similar to plot.default:
op <- par(mfrow = 1:2, bg = "light gray", fg = "midnight blue")
boxplot(z,   col.axis = "skyblue3", main = "boxplot(*, col.axis=..,main=..)")
plot(z[[1]], col.axis = "skyblue3", main =    "plot(*, col.axis=..,main=..)")
mtext("par(bg=\"light gray\", fg=\"midnight blue\")",
      outer = TRUE, line = -1.2)
par(op)

## Mimic S-Plus:
splus <- list(boxwex = 0.4, staplewex = 1, outwex = 1, boxfill = "grey40",
              medlwd = 3, medcol = "white", whisklty = 3, outlty = 1, outpch = NA)
boxplot(z, pars = splus)
## Recycled and "sweeping" parameters
op <- par(mfrow = c(1,2))
 boxplot(z, border = 1:5, lty = 3, medlty = 1, medlwd = 2.5)
 boxplot(z, boxfill = 1:3, pch = 1:5, lwd = 1.5, medcol = "white")
par(op)
## too many possibilities
boxplot(z, boxfill = "light gray", outpch = 21:25, outlty = 2,
        bg = "pink", lwd = 2,
        medcol = "dark blue", medcex = 2, medpch = 20)

bxp Draw Box Plots from Summaries