Multiple boxplots on one plot with ggplot2

boxplot, ggplot2, r

Solution

What does `str(d1)` tell you about `x`? If numeric or integer, then that could be your problem. If `Year` is a factor, then you get a boxplot for each Year. As an example:

library(ggplot2)

# Some toy data
df <- data.frame(Year = rep(c(1:30), each=20), Value = rnorm(600))
str(df)

Note that `Year` is an integer variable

ggplot(df, aes(Year, Value)) + geom_boxplot()   # One boxplot

ggplot(df, aes(factor(Year), Value)) + geom_boxplot()   # 30 boxplots

Problem

Standard R plotting produces 30 boxplots in one plot when I use this code: ``` boxplot(Abundance[Quartile==1]~Year[Quartile==1],col="LightBlue",main="Quartile1 (Rare)") ``` I would like to produce something similar in ggplot2. So far i'm using this: ``` d1 = data.frame(x=data$Year[Quartile==1],y=data$Abundance[Quartile==1]) a <- ggplot(d1,aes(x,y)) a + geom_boxplot() ``` There are 30 years of data. In each year there are 145 species. In each year the 145 species are categorized into quartiles of 1-4. However, I'm only getting a single boxplot using this. Any idea how to get 30 boxplots (one for each year) along the x axes? Any help much appreciated. There are 30 years of data. In each year there are 145 species. In each year the 145 species are categorized into quartiles of 1-4.

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