How to remove default axis from the plot produced by boxplot()?

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Francisco · Jan 26, 2013 · Viewed 50.6k times · Source

Probably this is a simple question,

Does anyone know how to hide the default axis x labels in boxplot() in R?

It should be simple, but I search on several sites and on boxplot help but could not find the answer.

Answer

You mean like this?

 d <- data.frame(x = 2, y=1:5) 
 boxplot(d)
 boxplot(d, axes=FALSE) # add axes=FALSE to remove axes

you can then add axes however you please:

e.g.

 d <- data.frame(x = 2, y=1:5) 
 boxplot(d, axes=FALSE)
 axis(2, at=1:5, labels=c(rep("whatever I want",5)))

EDIT as per your comment:

remove default labels:

 boxplot(d, xaxt="n")