Draw bloxplots in R given 25,50,75 percentiles and min and max values [duplicate]

Answer 1

This post shows how you can do this with bxp which is the function that boxplot uses, but you need to put your data in the right order with the first row being the minimum, and the last row being the maximum.

First, read in the data

dat <- read.table(text="sample1   1   38   10   8    10   13
sample2   1   39   10   9    11   14
sample3   2   36   11   10   10   13", row.names=1, header=FALSE)

Then, put in order and transpose

dat2 <- t(dat[, c(1, 4, 5, 6, 2)]) #Min, 25pct, 50pct, 75pct, Max

and plot

bxp(list(stats=dat2, n=rep(10, ncol(dat2)))) #n is the number of observations in each group

Answer 2

This is a duplicate, however for posterity and since I already started writing...

dat <- data.frame(name=paste0('sample',1:3), min=c(1,1,2), max=c(38,39,36), mean=c(10,10,11), q25=c(8,9,10), q50=c(10,11,10), q75=c(13,14,13))

ggplot(dat, aes(x=name, ymin=min, ymax=max, lower=q25, middle=q50, upper=q75))+geom_boxplot(stat='identity')