BoxWhiskerChart with logarithmic axes 2

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I actually already found my answer on the question, however it is not working. see BoxWhiskerChart with logarithmic axes

I want to create a boxwiskerchart with a logaritmic axes. But when I try ScalingFunctions with "Log" I do not get the results I am suppose to get. Sometimes it does not work at all. And sometimes I get the wiskers upside down. What am I doing wrong?

data = RandomVariate[RayleighDistribution[RandomInteger[500]], {8, 50}];
BoxWhiskerChart[data, "Outliers", ChartStyle -> 56]

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BoxWhiskerChart[data, "Outliers", ChartStyle -> 56, ScalingFunctions -> "Log"]

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Also using Log10 does not work

BoxWhiskerChart[data, "Outliers", ChartStyle -> 56, ScalingFunctions -> "Log10"]

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Seems to be an issue of Mma v9. No such problems in Mma v10. — Karsten7, Jul 29 '14 at 12:25
I am using mathematica 9.0. So it is not possible to do use the 'ScalingFunctions' on a box plot in this version? — Wiebe, Jul 29 '14 at 12:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 26 '16 at 09:35

Here is a method that will work in version 9, although it requires you to install the CustomTicks package. Here is a BoxWhiskerChart using the normal linear scaling:

SeedRandom[420];
data = RandomVariate[
   RayleighDistribution[RandomInteger[500]], {8, 50}];
bwc = BoxWhiskerChart[data, "Outliers", ChartStyle -> 56]

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Here is the log-scaled chart you get from version 10,

BoxWhiskerChart[data, "Outliers", ChartStyle -> 56, 
 ScalingFunctions -> "Log10"]

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And here is the bootstrapped log-scale chart from version 9:

<< CustomTicks`
BoxWhiskerChart[Log10@data, "Outliers", ChartStyle -> 56, 
 FrameTicks -> {{LogTicks[10, 1, 4], 
    StripTickLabels[LogTicks[10, 1, 4]]}, {Automatic, Automatic}}]

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BoxWhiskerChart with logarithmic axes 2

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