# Alpha diversity boxplot

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-boxplot/10677
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**Created:** [July 15, 2019, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-boxplot/10677 "2019-07-15T07:38:02Z")
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### Author: ![Samia\_Alghamdi](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/samia_alghamdi/32/5248_2.png) [@Samia\_Alghamdi](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Samia_Alghamdi)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-boxplot/10677/1 "2019-07-15T07:38:02Z")

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> [@Alpha Diversity Boxplot](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-boxplot/6717/13):
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> Sorry @ZarulSaurus - I misspoke: The box plots in the upper figure represent the distribution of the selected alpha diversity metric for each group of samples at each even sampling depth. The lower and upper whiskers of the box plot are the 9th and 91st percentiles of the distribution (respectively), while the lower and upper extents of the box are the 25th and 75th percentiles of the …

Hi Mathew  
I want to generat boxplot Alpha and beta diversity using R but which values should I use?  
I mean I have to use spreadsheets in excel to put all values for individual organism and save them as csv file.  
Help me please

Thanks

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### Author: ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-boxplot/10677/2 "2019-07-15T15:55:18Z")

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### Author: ![system](https://forum-qiime2-org.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/2/1/21af5fe23cb6f4579467c66a9ed94e55274ca7bd.svg) [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-diversity-boxplot/10677/3 "2019-08-15T22:06:16Z")

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