Reputation: 73
I am a beginner in R, and have a question about making boxplots of columns in R. I just made a dataframe:
SUS <- data.frame(RD = c(4, 3, 4, 1, 2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 1), TK = c(4, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 3, 1),
WK = c(3, 2, 4, 1, 3, 3, 4, 2, 4, 2), NW = c(2, 2, 4, 2, NA, NA, 5, 1, 4, 2),
BW = c(3, 2, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1), EK = c(2, 4, 3, 1, 2, 4, 2, 2, 4, 2),
AN = c(3, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2))
rownames(SUS) <- c('Pleasant to use', 'Unnecessary complex', 'Easy to use',
'Need help of a technical person', 'Different functions well integrated','Various function incohorent', 'Imagine that it is easy to learn',
'Difficult to use', 'Confident during use', 'Long duration untill I could work with it')
I tried a number of times, but I did not succeed in making boxplots for all rows. Someone who can help me out here?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 2634
Reputation: 3502
You can do it as well using tidyverse
library(tidyverse)
SUS %>%
#create new column and save the row.names in it
mutate(variable = row.names(.)) %>%
#convert your data from wide to long
tidyr::gather("var", "value", 1:7) %>%
#plot it using ggplot2
ggplot(., aes(x = variable, y = value)) +
geom_boxplot()+
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle=35,hjust=1))
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 326
As @blondeclover says in the comment, boxplot()
should work fine for doing a boxplot of each column.
If what you want is a boxplot for each row, then actually your current rows need to be your columns. If you need to do this, you can transpose the data frame before plotting:
SUS.new <- as.data.frame(t(SUS))
boxplot(SUS.new)
Upvotes: 1