From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Sat Sep 24 19:40:50 2005
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:40:50 -0400
Subject: [Rd] plot, spineplot, boxplot in R 2.2.0
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I agree that I was mixing up the two issues.

On 9/24/05, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Dear Gabor,
>
> This behaviour makes sense to me, since in the first case the response is
> quantitative and the explanatory variable a factor (hence, parallel
> boxplots), while in the second it's vice-versa (hence parallel stacked
> bars). That is, the primary distinction, I think, isn't the orientation of
> the axes but the nature of the variables.
>
> Regards,
>  John
>
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> McMaster University
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
> > [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck
> > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 10:49 AM
> > To: R-devel
> > Subject: [Rd] plot, spineplot, boxplot in R 2.2.0
> >
> > I noticed, what seened to me, to be odd.  These produce a
> > boxplot in the first case and a spineplot in the second case
> > in R .2.2.0:
> >
> > plot(Sepal.Length ~ Species, iris)
> > plot(Species ~ Sepal.Length, iris)
> >
> > What if one wants to exchange axes?  Does the fact that this
> > seemingly innocuous change result in completely different
> > graphics make sense?  Is it desirable?
> >
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[Rd] plot, spineplot, boxplot in R 2.2.0
Gabor Grothendieck