Georg, A boxplot does not have a mean-bar. It has a median bar.
Bill Venables CSIRO Laboratories PO Box 120, Cleveland, 4163 AUSTRALIA Office Phone (email preferred): +61 7 3826 7251 Fax (if absolutely necessary): +61 7 3826 7304 Mobile: +61 4 8819 4402 Home Phone: +61 7 3286 7700 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bill.venables/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Georg Ehret Sent: Wednesday, 30 April 2008 1:09 PM To: r-help Subject: [R] boxplots Dear R user group, I am working with boxplots and cannot solve the following problem: > data<-c(0,15,0,60,0,0,0,0,0,60,60,0,60,0,30,0) > data [1] 0 15 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 60 60 0 60 0 30 0 > boxplot(data) The boxplot has the first hinge and the mean-bar both at 0... Why is this the mean is clearly >0! Thanking you and wishing you an excellent day, Georg. *************************** Georg Ehret Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, US [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
