How to add boxplots to scatterplot with jitter

Question

I am using following commands to produce a scatterplot with jitter:

ddf = data.frame(NUMS = rnorm(500), GRP = sample(LETTERS[1:5],500,replace=T))
library(lat         


        

Answer 1

Here's one way using base graphics.

boxplot(NUMS ~ GRP, data = ddf, lwd = 2, ylab = 'NUMS')
stripchart(NUMS ~ GRP, vertical = TRUE, data = ddf, 
    method = "jitter", add = TRUE, pch = 20, col = 'blue')