Please, add sharey keyword to boxplot.

[sorenwacker]

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

df.groupby('some feature').boxplot(sharey=False)

Problem description

Boxplot by default creates plots with shared y axis. The keyword sharey=False is not accepted. However, it would be consistent with df.plot(). This is unfortunate if you don't want to compare values across the subplots. There is a workaround mentioned here, but having the option to turn that "feature" off would be much simpler.

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit: None
python: 3.6.5.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Linux
OS-release: 4.4.0-17134-Microsoft
machine: x86_64
processor: x86_64
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE: en_US.UTF-8

pandas: 0.22.0
pytest: None
pip: 9.0.3
setuptools: 39.0.1
Cython: None
numpy: 1.14.2
scipy: 1.0.1
pyarrow: None
xarray: None
IPython: 6.3.1
sphinx: None
patsy: 0.5.0
dateutil: 2.7.2
pytz: 2018.4
blosc: None
bottleneck: None
tables: 3.4.3
numexpr: 2.6.4
feather: None
matplotlib: 2.2.2
openpyxl: None
xlrd: None
xlwt: None
xlsxwriter: None
lxml: None
bs4: None
html5lib: 0.9999999
sqlalchemy: 1.2.7
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: 2.10
s3fs: None
fastparquet: None
pandas_gbq: None
pandas_datareader: None

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[spizwhiz]

Agreed that this feature would be an excellent additon! Thanks.

[sorenwacker]

I made some changes in the code seems to work. Now, I can pass sharey and sharex to df.groupby().boxplot() and change the behavior. pytest is running without errors.

And (how) would you generate a test for the feature?