hadley wickham hwickhamgmailcom mon aug 4 2008 1036 pm chad junkermeier wrote really like ease use boxplot command r would rather boxplot shows average value standard deviation median value quartiles would suggest dont people looking boxplots expect see tradition tukey boxplot medians quartiles likely misinterpret graph want display means standard deviations hadley httphadconz ______________________________________________ rhelprprojectorg mailing list httpsstatethzchmailmanlistinforhelp please read posting guide httpwwwrprojectorgpostingguidehtml provide commented minimal selfcontained reproducible code tue 05 aug 2008 210613 0600 r boxplot average instead median