Summary

 

This W3C-unspecified chart was created with R.

using the following commands

svg(file = "R-US_state_areas-1D+quartiles.svg", width = 1.5, height = 5, pointsize = 8)
#Example R plot: 1D vertical scatter plot (stripplot) of US state areas, quartiles indicated by lines and point colours
par(mar=c(1,4,3,1.5)+0.1)
Y <- state.area*2.58998811/1000
set.seed(9) #set random number generator (for same random jitter when replotting)
jitter <- runif(length(Y), 0.8, 1.2)
stripchart(Y, vertical=TRUE, pch=NA,
ylab=expression(paste(italic("landArea")," (thousands of square km)")), yaxt="n")
abline(h=seq(0, 2e3, 100), lty="dotted", col="lightgray")
axis(2,seq(0, 2e3, 100), cex.axis=0.8, las=2)
axis(4,quantile(Y, c(0.25,0.5,0.75)), c("Q1","Med","Q3"), cex.axis=0.7, las=1, mgp=c(1,0.1,0), tcl=0)
abline(h=quantile(Y, (1:3)/4), lwd=c(1,3,1), col=c("green","black","red"))
q <- findInterval(Y, quantile(Y, (0:4)/4), TRUE)
points(jitter[q==1], Y[q==1], col="green")
points(jitter[q==2], Y[q==2], col="black")
points(jitter[q==3], Y[q==3], col="black")
points(jitter[q==4], Y[q==4], col="red")
title("Size of US states", outer=TRUE, line=-2) #centre the title on the device
dev.off()

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