Manually defining boxplot width and segment values

[ilovecheese]

Hi, I have 2 questions on plotly’s boxplots:

1. Is there a way to control the box width. I know you can play with this by messing with the overall layout as in [1], but I want to overlay the boxplot on other scatter plots and thus need to control its width directly. Is this possible?

2. Is there a way to supply the boxlpot values directly (as in its mean, median, and quartiles) rather than passing data and having plotly internally compute those values. Essentially, I want to compute a custom boxplot.

Thanks

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26534247/how-do-you-set-the-box-width-in-a-plotly-box-in-python

[etienne]

@ilovecheese

Is there a way to control the box width. I know you can play with this by messing with the overall layout as in [1], but I want to overlay the boxplot on other scatter plots and thus need to control its width directly. Is this possible?

Not directly, you can use layout.boxgap and layout.boxgroupgap to adjust their size.

@ilovecheese

Is there a way to supply the boxlpot values directly (as in its mean, median, and quartiles) rather than passing data and having plotly internally compute those values. Essentially, I want to compute a custom boxplot.

Not at the moment. See Allow precomputed statistics input for box traces · Issue #1059 · plotly/plotly.js · GitHub

[ilovecheese]

Thank you! More control over boxplots is definitely highly desired. I will probably have to custom make my own now with lines and shapes

[slfan2013]

Hi,

where I can find the boxgap and boxgroupgap? I tried in https://plot.ly/javascript/reference/ but couldn’t find these.

[bstinson]

@slfan2013, did you find a way to get boxgap and boxgroupgap to work?