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Basic Boxplots Using a Unified AAGI Style and Typography

Source: R/boxplot_aagi.R
boxplot_aagi.Rd

Basic boxplots that follow AAGI colour and typography guidelines that uses (hopefully) sensible defaults.

Usage

boxplot_aagi(
  x,
  main = "",
  sub = "",
  xlab = "",
  ylab = "",
  col = "white",
  pch = 16,
  ...
)

Arguments

x

for specifying data from which the boxplots are to be produced. Either a numeric vector, or a single list containing such vectors. Additional unnamed arguments specify further data as separate vectors (each corresponding to a component boxplot). NAs are allowed in the data.

main

Main title. Optional, if not supplied it will be blank.

sub

Sub title below x-axis label. Optional, if not supplied it will be blank.

xlab

X-axis label. Optional.

ylab

Y-axis label. Optional.

col

Colour to use as fill for boxes Defaults to white. Can be supplied as a named AAGI colour, e.g., "AAGI Orange"; named colour, "Orange"; or or a hexadecimal code, "#ec8525".

pch

plotting ‘character’, i.e., symbol to use. This can either be a single character or an integer code for one of a set of graphics symbols. The full set of S symbols is available with pch = 0:18, see the examples below. (NB: R uses circles instead of the octagons used in S.) Value pch = "." (equivalently pch = 46) is handled specially. It is a rectangle of side 0.01 inch (scaled by cex). In addition, if cex = 1 (the default), each side is at least one pixel (1/72 inch on the grDevices::pdf(), grDevices::postscript() and grDevices::xfig() devices). For other text symbols, cex = 1 corresponds to the default font size of the device, often specified by an argument pointsize. For pch in 0:25 the default size is about 75% of the character height (see par("cin")).

...

Arguments to be passed to methods, such as graphical parameters (see graphics::par()).

See also

graphics::boxplot() for full documentation of the basic boxplot capabilities

Author

Adam Sparks, adam.sparks@curtin.edu.au

Examples

boxplot_aagi(decrease ~ treatment,
  data = OrchardSprays,
  xlab = "treatment",
  ylab = "decrease"
)