How to set the range of y-axis for a seaborn boxplot?

Xin picture Xin · Oct 20, 2015 · Viewed 109.5k times · Source

From the official seaborn documentation, I learned that you can create a boxplot as below:

import seaborn as sns
sns.set_style("whitegrid")
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")
ax = sns.boxplot(x="day", y="total_bill", data=tips)

Seaborn Boxplot Example

My question is: how do I limit the range of y-axis of this plot? For example, I want the y-axis to be within [10, 40]. Is there any easy way to do this?

Answer

Dave X picture Dave X · Oct 20, 2015

It is standard matplotlib.pyplot:

...
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.ylim(10, 40)

Or simpler, as mwaskom comments below:

ax.set(ylim=(10, 40))

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