[R] How to hide tick lines behind the "box-and-whisker" 's in a boxplot

Helmer Belbo hbelbo at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 12:01:54 CEST 2009


Thanks a lot!
Helmer

2009/10/13 Peter Ehlers <ehlers at ucalgary.ca>:
> Helmer,
>
> You can just place another boxplot on top of the first like this:
>
>  boxplot(x)
>  axis(2,tck=1,col.ticks='grey',lty=5 )
>  boxplot(x, col="white", add=TRUE)
>
>  -Peter Ehlers
>
> Helmer Belbo wrote:
>>
>> Dear R people,
>>
>> I wonder how to hide tick lines behind other figures in a plot, e.g.
>> in a boxplot.
>>
>> # Sample code:
>>
>> x<- c(rep(4,50),rep(5,20),rep(6,50),rnorm(20,5,1))
>> boxplot(x)
>> axis(2,tck=1,col.ticks='grey',lty=5 )
>>
>> # end of sample code
>>
>> The tick lines is put on top of the box-plot, but I would like to put
>> these lines behind the box and whiskers..
>>
>> Regards
>> Helmer
>>
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>



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