How to generate boxplot

Question

I have a data and from that, I want to generate boxplot. My file is saved in \"1.txt\" file and it seems like this

R  S1G1   S1G2   S2G1   S2G2
1  0.98   0.9         


        

Answer 1

Your comments are a little tough to decipher, but I'm guessing that maybe you wanted a boxplot for each column S1G1, etc. In that case I'd melt your data:

xx <- read.table(textConnection("R  S1G1   S1G2   S2G1   S2G2
1  0.98   0.98   0.96   0.89
2  0.89   0.89   0.98   0.88
3  0.88   0.99   0.89   0.87"),header = TRUE, sep ="")

xx1 <- melt(xx, id.vars = "R")

and then you can make side-by-side boxplots using any of the popular graphing idioms:

ggplot(xx1, aes(x = variable, y = value)) + 
    geom_boxplot()

Or you can use base graphics or lattice (plots omitted):

boxplot(value~variable, data = xx1)

bwplot(value~variable,data = xx1)