[R] how to avoid grid overlapping in a boxplot

R. Michael Weylandt michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 17:50:38 CET 2012


It's a bit of a hack, but you could just redraw the boxplot on top of
the grid lines:

x <- rnorm(50)
boxplot(x)
grid()
boxplot(x, add = TRUE)

Michael


On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:08 PM, maxbre <mbressan at arpa.veneto.it> wrote:
> Given the following chart: i.e. a boxplot with a grid
>
> boxplot(x~y)
> grid(nx=NA,ny=NULL)
>
> my question: how to avoid the overlapping of boxes (and whiskers) by grid
> lines?
>
> thank you for any help pointing me in the right direction
>
> max
>
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