This doesn't appear to be a bug, you can use `axes = FALSE' in the call to boxplot().
-roger _______________________________ UCLA Department of Statistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~rpeng On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Raubertas, Richard wrote: > R 1.6.1 on Windows NT4: > > The boxplot() function appears to draw its own tick marks > and axis values even when called with add=TRUE. As a toy > example, try > > x <- rnorm(100) > f <- factor(rep(1:4, each=25)) > plot(c(0,4), c(-3,3), type="n", xaxt="n", yaxt="n") > boxplot(x ~ f, add=TRUE) > > My expectation is that a high-level plotting function will > not mess with the axes when called with add=TRUE. Is this > a bug or is my expectation wrong? > > Richard Raubertas > Biometrics Research, RY84-16 > Merck & Co. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help