Re: [R] boxplot with average instead of median 
Hadley makes a good point. Boxplots should be standardized. Thre is already
inconsistency in what value the "wiskers" represent. 

Violin plots with means and 95% CI are a good option if you want to show the
shape of a distribution with the mean. You could add the median as well.
That's what I did in the code I posted in this thread:

http://www.nabble.com/adding-the-mean-and-standard-deviation-to-boxplots-td15271398.html


hadley wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Chad Junkermeier 
> wrote:
>> I really like the ease of use with the boxplot command in R.  I would
>> rather
>> have a boxplot that shows the average value and the standard deviation
>> then
>> the median value and the quartiles.
> 
> I would suggest that you don't do this.  Most people looking at the
> boxplots will expect to see the tradition Tukey boxplot with medians
> and quartiles, and are likely to misinterpret the graph.
> 
> Why do you want to display means and standard deviations?
> 
> Hadley
> 
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