fBasics (version 4041.97)

BoxPlot: Time series box plots

Description

Produce a box plot or a box percentile plot.

Usage

boxPlot(x, col = "steelblue", title = TRUE, ...)
boxPercentilePlot(x, col = "steelblue", title = TRUE, ...)

Value

NULL, displays a time series plot

Arguments

x

an object of class "timeSeries" or any other object which can be transformed by the function as.timeSeries into an object of class timeSeries. The latter case, other then timeSeries objects, is more or less untested.

col

the color for the series. In the univariate case use just a color name like the default, col="steelblue", in the multivariate case we recommend to select the colors from a color palette, e.g. col=heat.colors(ncol(x)).

title

a logical flag, by default TRUE. Should a default title added to the plot?

...

optional arguments to be passed.

Details

boxPlot produces a side-by-side standard box plot,

boxPercentilePlot produces a side-by-side box-percentile plot.

Examples

## data
data(LPP2005REC, package = "timeSeries")
LPP <- LPP2005REC[, 1:6]
plot(LPP, type = "l", col = "steelblue", main = "SP500")
abline(h = 0, col = "grey")
   
boxPlot(LPP)