Tufte and boxplots?

["Thomas D. Fletcher" <tom.fletcher@cox.net>]

Edward Tufte writes about alternatives to the traditional boxplots. For example, in order to maximize the data-ink ratio, he describes boxplots that don't resemble boxplots at all. They are more like lines, dots and empty space. Quite clever really.

 

Does anyone have any example code to create such plots? Is there a pre-defined function in S-plus to produce a similar plot?

 

Here is an example using plain text:

 

Boxplot:

 

   [ -----[ * ] -----]

 

Alternate method:

 

   -----    *   -----

 

Sorry for the pitiful demonstration in plain text. Didn't know how else to demonstrate the effect.

 

Thanks

Tom

 

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