Turning whiskers into rectangles in boxplot in R

Question

I have made a simple boxplot in R, and am trying to turn the whiskers into rectangles. So the end result would be one rectangle (instead of a box with whiskers), with partitions at the 25th percentile, the median, and the 75th percentile. Is there any way to do this?

Thank you for all your help!!

Can you provide a [reproducible example](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example), eg some numbers that you want to plot? — gung - Reinstate Monica, Nov 22 '13 at 23:24
@gung I don't think that will help much, it's pretty clear what he wants. It's just probably a bit laborious. — Señor O, Nov 22 '13 at 23:25
You will probably have to use `rect` and divide the quantiles yourself. — Señor O, Nov 22 '13 at 23:26
@gung maybe the best "reproducible example" he could provide is a custom drawing of the desired result? — Señor O, Nov 22 '13 at 23:27

TWL · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-23T08:17:44.230

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Try this:

# simulating dataset
set.seed(12)
d1 <- rnorm(100, sd=30)
d2 <- rnorm(100, sd=10)
d <- data.frame(value=c(d1,d2), condition=rep(c("A","B"),each=100))

# require(ggplot2)
ggplot(data=d, aes(x=condition, y=value, fill=condition)) + 
geom_crossbar(stat="summary", fun.y=quantile, fun.ymax=max, fun.ymin=min)

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edited Nov 23 '13 at 08:17

answered Nov 23 '13 at 03:37

TWL

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