R help - Oct 2009 - How to hide tick lines behind the "box-and-whisker" 's in a boxplot

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

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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