Functions available for Tufte boxplots in R?

Question

I have some data that I\'ve divided into enough groupings that standard boxplots look very crowded. Tufte has his own boxplots in which you basically drop all or half of bo

Answer 1

There are functions for making a few Tufte-style plots in the package ggthemes by Jeffrey Arnold, available on github. The package is a bunch of themes for ggplot and includes:

geom_tufterangeframe: Tufte's range frame

geom_tufteboxplot: Tufte's box plot

theme_tufte: a minimal ink based on Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

Here's an example of the Tufte minimal boxplot from the package's README on github: