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Slight change to the vioplot function from Daniel Adler that plots median lines instead of points, and gives the option to plot either side of a violin rather than always both.
vioplot2 <- function (x, ..., range = 1.5, h = NULL, ylim = NULL, names = NULL,
horizontal = FALSE, col = "magenta", border = "black", lty = 1,
lwd = 1, rectCol = "black", colMed = "white", pchMed = 19,
at, add = FALSE, wex = 1, drawRect = TRUE, side="both")
{
datas <- list(x, ...)
n <- length(datas)
if (missing(at))
at <- 1:n
upper <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = n)
lower <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = n)
q1 <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = n)
q2 <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = n)
q3 <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = n)
med <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = n)
base <- vector(mode = "list", length = n)
height <- vector(mode = "list", length = n)
baserange <- c(Inf, -Inf)
args <- list(display = "none")
radj <- ifelse(side == "right", 0, 1)
ladj <- ifelse(side == "left", 0, 1)
if (!(is.null(h)))
args <- c(args, h = h)
med.dens <- rep(NA, n)
for (i in 1:n) {
data <- datas[[i]]
data.min <- min(data)
data.max <- max(data)
q1[i] <- quantile(data, 0.25)
q2[i] <- quantile(data, 0.5)
q3[i] <- quantile(data, 0.75)
med[i] <- median(data)
iqd <- q3[i] - q1[i]
upper[i] <- min(q3[i] + range * iqd, data.max)
lower[i] <- max(q1[i] - range * iqd, data.min)
est.xlim <- c(min(lower[i], data.min), max(upper[i],
data.max))
smout <- do.call("sm.density", c(list(data, xlim = est.xlim),
args))
med.dat <- do.call("sm.density",
c(list(data, xlim=est.xlim,
eval.points=med[i], display = "none")))
med.dens[i] <- med.dat$estimate
hscale <- 0.4/max(smout$estimate) * wex
base[[i]] <- smout$eval.points
height[[i]] <- smout$estimate * hscale
med.dens[i] <- med.dens[i] * hscale
t <- range(base[[i]])
baserange[1] <- min(baserange[1], t[1])
baserange[2] <- max(baserange[2], t[2])
}
if (!add) {
xlim <- if (n == 1)
at + c(-0.5, 0.5)
else range(at) + min(diff(at))/2 * c(-1, 1)
if (is.null(ylim)) {
ylim <- baserange
}
}
if (is.null(names)) {
label <- 1:n
}
else {
label <- names
}
boxwidth <- 0.05 * wex
if (!add)
plot.new()
if (!horizontal) {
if (!add) {
plot.window(xlim = xlim, ylim = ylim)
axis(2)
axis(1, at = at, label = label)
}
box()
for (i in 1:n) {
polygon(x = c(at[i] - radj*height[[i]], rev(at[i] + ladj*height[[i]])),
y = c(base[[i]], rev(base[[i]])),
col = col, border = border,
lty = lty, lwd = lwd)
if (drawRect) {
lines(at[c(i, i)], c(lower[i], upper[i]), lwd = lwd,
lty = lty)
rect(at[i] - radj*boxwidth/2,
q1[i],
at[i] + ladj*boxwidth/2,
q3[i], col = rectCol)
# median line segment
lines(x = c(at[i] - radj*med.dens[i],
at[i],
at[i] + ladj*med.dens[i]),
y = rep(med[i],3))
}
}
}
else {
if (!add) {
plot.window(xlim = ylim, ylim = xlim)
axis(1)
axis(2, at = at, label = label)
}
box()
for (i in 1:n) {
polygon(c(base[[i]], rev(base[[i]])),
c(at[i] - radj*height[[i]], rev(at[i] + ladj*height[[i]])),
col = col, border = border,
lty = lty, lwd = lwd)
if (drawRect) {
lines(c(lower[i], upper[i]), at[c(i, i)], lwd = lwd,
lty = lty)
rect(q1[i], at[i] - radj*boxwidth/2, q3[i], at[i] +
ladj*boxwidth/2, col = rectCol)
lines(y = c(at[i] - radj*med.dens[i],
at[i],
at[i] + ladj*med.dens[i]),
x = rep(med[i],3))
}
}
}
invisible(list(upper = upper, lower = lower, median = med,
q1 = q1, q3 = q3))
}
@garthj88
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Just wanted to say thanks for the code, it's helped me in cases similar to boxplot(x~y|z) -- (still would love to have variable widths proportional to group sizes, but I guess it doesn't really work for the violin's densities).

@lestberg
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Thank you, this is very useful for my projects.

@TomKellyGenetics
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If anyone's interested in this functionality, I've wrapped it in a package with some additional functionality: https://github.com/TomKellyGenetics/vioplotx

This is backwards compatible with inputs to vioplot and boxplot. Looking into submission to CRAN as well.

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