hbaize hbaizebuttecountynet hadley makes good point boxplots standardized thre already inconsistency value wiskers represent violin plots means 95 ci good option want show shape distribution mean could add median well thats code posted thread httpwwwnabblecomaddingthemeanandstandarddeviationtoboxplotstd15271398html hadley wrote 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 view message context httpwwwnabblecomboxplotwithaverageinsteadofmediantp18826179p18853580html sent r help mailing list archive nabblecom ______________________________________________ rhelprprojectorg mailing list httpsstatethzchmailmanlistinforhelp please read posting guide httpwwwrprojectorgpostingguidehtml provide commented minimal selfcontained reproducible code wed 06 aug 2008 082326 0700 r boxplot average instead median