[R] how to avoid grid overlapping in a boxplot

[Rui Barradas]

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 at .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
>>
>>
>>
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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


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