>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@(protected)>
>>>>>   on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:03:33 -0400 writes:

[...........]

  Duncan> Not sure why boxplot.stats is in grDevices rather
  Duncan> than graphics, but that's not really relevant to
  Duncan> your problems.

because it does "computation for Graphics" (capitalized on purpose)
which should not at all be limited to old-style S graphics which
is the topic of the "graphics" package.
E.g. "grid" and grid-based graphics should use boxplot.stats
(for consistency).
For the same reason, "color computations" are in 'grDevices',
[[and we have acknowledged a while ago that 'grDevices' has become a
slight misnomer

Martin Maechler

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