Boxplot Chart

A boxplot gives a nice summary of one or several numeric variables. The line that divides the box into 2 parts represents the median of the data. The end of the box shows the upper and lower quartiles. The extreme lines show the highest and lowest value excluding outliers.


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<head>
  <!-- Include the CanvasXpress library in your HTML file -->
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.canvasxpress.org/dist/canvasXpress.css" type="text/css"/>
  <script src="https://www.canvasxpress.org/dist/canvasXpress.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>

  <!-- Create a canvas element for the chart with the desired dimensions -->
  <div>
    <canvas id="canvasId" width="600" height="600"></canvas>
  </div>


  <!-- Create a script to initialize the chart -->
  <script>

    // Create the data for the graph
    var data = {
       "x" : {
          "dose" : ["0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","1","1","1","1","1","1","1","1","1","1","2","2","2","2","2","2","2","2","2","2","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","0.5","1","1","1","1","1","1","1","1","1","1","2","2","2","2","2","2","2","2","2","2"],
          "order" : [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10],
          "supp" : ["VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","VC","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ","OJ"]
       },
       "y" : {
          "data" : [
            [4.2,11.5,7.3,5.8,6.4,10,11.2,11.2,5.2,7,16.5,16.5,15.2,17.3,22.5,17.3,13.6,14.5,18.8,15.5,23.6,18.5,33.9,25.5,26.4,32.5,26.7,21.5,23.3,29.5,15.2,21.5,17.6,9.7,14.5,10,8.2,9.4,16.5,9.7,19.7,23.3,23.6,26.4,20,25.2,25.8,21.2,14.5,27.3,25.5,26.4,22.4,24.5,24.8,30.9,26.4,27.3,29.4,23]
          ],
          "smps" : ["Var1","Var2","Var3","Var4","Var5","Var6","Var7","Var8","Var9","Var10","Var11","Var12","Var13","Var14","Var15","Var16","Var17","Var18","Var19","Var20","Var21","Var22","Var23","Var24","Var25","Var26","Var27","Var28","Var29","Var30","Var31","Var32","Var33","Var34","Var35","Var36","Var37","Var38","Var39","Var40","Var41","Var42","Var43","Var44","Var45","Var46","Var47","Var48","Var49","Var50","Var51","Var52","Var53","Var54","Var55","Var56","Var57","Var58","Var59","Var60"],
          "vars" : ["len"]
       }
    }
    
    
    // Create the configuration for the graph
    var config = {
       "axisAlgorithm":"rPretty",
       "axisTitleFontStyle":"bold",
       "graphOrientation":"vertical",
       "graphType":"Boxplot",
       "groupingFactors":[
          "dose"
       ],
       "showLegend":false,
       "smpTextRotate":"90",
       "smpTitle":"dose",
       "smpTitleFontStyle":"bold",
       "theme":"CanvasXpress",
       "title":"The Effect of Vitamin C on Tooth Growth in Guinea Pigs",
       "xAxis2Show":false,
       "xAxisTitle":"len"
    }
    

    // Call the CanvasXpress function to create the graph
    var cX = new CanvasXpress("canvasId", data, config);


  </script>

</body>
library(canvasXpress)
y=read.table("https://www.canvasxpress.org/data/cX-toothgrowth-dat.txt", header=TRUE, sep="\t", quote="", row.names=1, fill=TRUE, check.names=FALSE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
x=read.table("https://www.canvasxpress.org/data/cX-toothgrowth-smp.txt", header=TRUE, sep="\t", quote="", row.names=1, fill=TRUE, check.names=FALSE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
canvasXpress(
  data=y,
  smpAnnot=x,
  axisAlgorithm="rPretty",
  axisTitleFontStyle="bold",
  graphOrientation="vertical",
  graphType="Boxplot",
  groupingFactors=list("dose"),
  showLegend=FALSE,
  smpTextRotate=90,
  smpTitle="dose",
  smpTitleFontStyle="bold",
  theme="CanvasXpress",
  title="The Effect of Vitamin C on Tooth Growth in Guinea Pigs",
  xAxis2Show=FALSE,
  xAxisTitle="len"
)