Hello,
Michael Weylandt wrote > > 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@.veneto> 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@ 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@ 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. > Doesn't remove the grid lines, you need the parameter 'col': x <- rnorm(50) boxplot(x) grid() boxplot(x, add = TRUE, col="white") or, start an empty plot, draw the grid then the boxplot: plot(1, type="n", xlim=c(0.5, 1.5), ylim=range(x), xlab="", ylab="", axes=FALSE) grid() boxplot(x, add=TRUE, col="white") If you have two groups, the xlim would be c(0.5, 2.5), etc... Hope this helps, Rui Barradas -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-to-avoid-grid-overlapping-in-a-boxplot-tp4495955p4496688.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.
