#441 Horizontal Boxplot

[Matthew Halverson]

I would love to see a new style similar to the boxplot style to draw horizontal boxplots. Unlike horizontal bars which can be done with one style using boxxyerrorbars, horizontal boxplots are much more difficult.

Currently, these have to be done in steps

1. Compute statistics
2. Draw line from Q1 to Q3 using xerrorbars
3. Draw box using boxxyerrorbars
4. Draw dividing line at median using either yerrorbars or lines

In the boxplot style, all of these are combined and done at once. The above can mimic this style, but it becomes very difficult to do if there is a factor variable to draw multiple boxes or if the whiskers need to be the same width as the box.

It would be very nice to be able to do something like

plot datafile u value_column:(y_value):width:factor_variable w hboxplot

similar to the boxplot style.