title: How to Draw a Plot in R Which is Not a Box-and-Whiskers Plot
body: <p>I have a large data set which has data like below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>      Age          Ethnicity          Gender        Crude_Rate 
        20-24        Pacific Islander   Female        39.2   
        55-59        Caucasian          Male          100.3
        60-64        African            Female        3.2
        30-34        Asian              Male          2.8
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to draw three plots on R for: </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>crude rate (y-axis always) against age</li>
  <li>crude rate against ethnicity</li>
  <li>crude rate against gender</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I am getting plots but it is a box-and-whisker plot with points above it which is not what I want. I would just like the points to be plotted i.e. a scatter plot. </p>
  
  <p>The code I am using is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>melanoma &lt;-read.csv("Melanoma Age.csv", header=TRUE, na.strings = c("Not     Applicable"))
  melanoma&lt;-na.omit(melanoma)
  
  
  plot(melanoma$Gender, melanoma$Crude_Rate,las=2, ylab="Crude Rate",    xlab="Gender", main="Crude Rates for Both Genders")
  plot(melanoma$Age, melanoma$Crude_Rate,las=2, ylab="Crude Rate", main="Crude Rates for Different Age Groups")
  plot(melanoma$Ethnicity, melanoma$Crude_Rate,las=2, ylab="Crude Rate", main="Crude Rates for Different Ethnicities")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't get what I have done wrong because usually when I do this I get a scatter plot, not a box-and-whisker plot with points above it.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advanced for any help</p>