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 <mbres...@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 > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-to-avoid-grid-overlapping-in-a-boxplot-tp4495955p4495955.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.