R: Plot multiple box plots using columns from data frame

Question

I would like to plot an INDIVIDUAL box plot for each unrelated column in a data frame. I thought I was on the right track with boxplot.matrix from the sfs

Answer 1

You could use the reshape package to simplify things

data <- data.frame(v1=rnorm(100),v2=rnorm(100),v3=rnorm(100), v4=rnorm(100))
library(reshape)
meltData <- melt(data)
boxplot(data=meltData, value~variable)

or even then use ggplot2 package to make things nicer

library(ggplot2)
p <- ggplot(meltData, aes(factor(variable), value)) 
p + geom_boxplot() + facet_wrap(~variable, scale="free")