[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45006] statistics -> boxplot: make automatic width scaling optional

[Martin Kunz]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45006>

                 Summary: statistics -> boxplot: make automatic width scaling
optional
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mkunz
            Submitted on: Mo 04 Mai 2015 16:49:10 GMT
                Category: Octave Forge Package
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.0-rc4
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

In the statistics package v1.2.4, boxplot produces plots where the width of
the box is proportional to the number of data points contained. While this is
a nice feature, users might not want it under certain circumstances. Consider,
for example, the comparison of two datasets that differ a lot in size:


boxplot({randn(10,1),randn(1000,1)},.5)


Depending on the size of the figure window, the left box might not be visible
at all, and even if it is, the borders of the "notches" cannot be seen.

Therefore, my suggestion is to make the automatic adjustment of the box width
optional, i.e. to introduce a switch that selects either auto scaling or fixed
box width.




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