R software, making boxplot, need finite ‘ylim’ value

> B<-subset(olympic,sport=="basketball")
> BM<-subset(B,sex=="M"
+ )
> boxplot(BM$height)

Error in plot.window(xlim = xlim, ylim = ylim, log = log, yaxs = pars$yaxs):
need finite 'ylim' values
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
2: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf

This is what happened when I try to plot the graph. I'm new to R.

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Just add ylim=c(0,300)) to your code

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The problem is that you're (probably) trying to plot a vector that consists exclusively of missing (NA) values. Here's an example:

> x=rep(NA,100)
> y=rnorm(100)
> plot(x,y)
Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'xlim' values
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
2: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf

In your example this means that in your line plot(costs,pseudor2,type="l"), costs is completely NA. You have to figure out why this is, but that's the explanation of your error.

From comments:

Scott C Wilson: Another possible cause of this message (not in this case, but in others) is attempting to use character values as X or Y data. You can use the class function to check your x and Y values to be sure if you think this might be your issue.

stevec: Here is a quick and easy solution to that problem (basically wrap x in as.factor(x))

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