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Box plots

Source: R/graphs.R
box_plot.Rd

Produce box-and-whisker plot(s) of the given (grouped) values, with an option (using the argument type) to change the estimator used to estimate the quartiles. The only argument described below is type. For details of the other arguments see the Arguments section of boxplot.

Arguments

type

an integer between 1 and 9 selecting one of the nine quantile algorithms detailed in the Details section of the quantile documentation. The default is type = 6.

Value

A list with the same contents as described in the Value section of the boxplot documentation.

Details

See the Details section of the boxplot documentation.

Usage

See the Usage section of the boxplot documentation.

Examples

birth_times <- ox_births[, "time"]
box_plot(birth_times)

box_plot(birth_times, horizontal = TRUE)