title: R - Violin plots with many columns
body: <p>I am trying to plot a violin plot with many columns. I will be reading in a file like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>data &lt;- read.table("file.txt", as.is=TRUE);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The data file will have many rows, each of which should be a column. The problem is that I don't know beforehand how many rows the data file will have. From what I've found through research, I can make a violin plot like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>vioplot(x, y, z, ....);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which would give me just a preset number of columns. How would I go about handling all of the rows? Also, I'd have a list of strings that would correspond with the columns, so the naming parameter would also require a similar approach.</p>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated.</p>