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Bell
Bell

Reputation: 359

Error when making a simple boxplot with ggplot2

Using the mpg data in R, I can make a boxplot of 'displ' with

boxplot(mpg$displ)

But when I try to make this simple boxplot with ggplot, 

ggplot(data = mpg, aes(displ)) + geom_boxplot()

I get this error;

Error in seq.default(from = best$lmin, to = best$lmax, by = best$lstep) : 'from' must be of length 1
In addition: Warning messages:
1: Continuous x aesthetic -- did you forget aes(group=...)? 
2: In is.na(data$y) :  is.na() applied to non-(list or vector) of type 'NULL'

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6305

Answers (1)

Thierry
Thierry

Reputation: 18487

ggplot2 requires both an x and y variable of a boxplot. Here is how to make a single boxplot

ggplot(data = mpg, aes(x = "", y = displ)) + 
  geom_boxplot() + 
  theme(axis.title.x = element_blank())

Upvotes: 7

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