R help - Feb 2004 - axes in boxplots

Hi

I am struggling with controlling the axes of boxplots. I need to produce 
two horizontal boxplots with the same x-axis for comparison purposes.
But when I generate a plot(c(-12,8), c(-6,1), type="n") first, then
the
following boxplot always overwrites it! I went into the code of 
boxplot.default, but even that without success.

Thanks for any hint!

David

David Andel wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am struggling with controlling the axes of boxplots. I need to produce 
> two horizontal boxplots with the same x-axis for comparison purposes.
> But when I generate a plot(c(-12,8), c(-6,1), type="n") first,
then the
> following boxplot always overwrites it! I went into the code of 
> boxplot.default, but even that without success.
> 	
> Thanks for any hint!
  boxplot(dat1, dat2, horizontal=TRUE)
plots 2 parallel boxplots of dat1 and dat2 respectively.

Uwe Ligges