plotrix (version 3.4-5)

box.heresy: Display a sort of box plot

Description

box.heresy displays a box plot in which a symbol represents a measure of central tendency, a surrounding box that represents an "inner" measure of dispersion (e.g. standard error) and whiskers that represent an "outer" measure of dispersion (e.g. standard deviation). The function is pretty basic at this time and will probably change a bit.

Usage

box.heresy(x,y,uinner,linner=uinner,ulim,llim=ulim,intervals=FALSE,
 arrow.cap=NA,pch=22,main="",xlab="",ylab="",xaxlab=NA,col="white",do.first=NULL,...)

Arguments

x,y

Vectors of numeric values representing measures of central tendency.

uinner,linner

Vectors of numeric values representing "inner" measures of dispersion.

ulim,llim

Vectors of numeric values representing "outer" measures of dispersion.

intervals

Whether the values for dispersion are intervals (TRUE) or absolute limits (FALSE).

arrow.cap

The width of the cap on the "whiskers" relative to the width of the plot. Defaults to the same width as the outer box.

pch

The symbol to be used to represent the measure(s) of central tencency in the box.

main

The title for the plot (i.e. main).

xlab,ylab

The x and y axis labels.

xaxlab

Optional labels for the boxes.

col

The fill colors for the "inner" rectangles.

do.first

An expression that will be evaluated before anything is displayed.

...

additional arguments passed to the dispersion function.

Value

• nil

See Also

plot, boxplot

Examples

y<-runif(5)
 ulim<-runif(5)
 llim<-runif(5)
 uinner<-ulim/2
 linner<-llim/2
 box.heresy(y,uinner=uinner,linner=linner,ulim=ulim,llim=llim,
  intervals=TRUE,main="The heretical boxplot",
  xlab="Number of observations",ylab="Value")