Removing top and right borders from boxplot frame in R

Question

Does anyone know how to remove the top and right borders of the boxplot frame in R? I have tried the argument frame=FALSE but that removes all sides but the left side(y-axis). I just want the x-axis and y-axis to display.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

1. Plot without axes

    boxplot(x, axes=F)

2. Add a box of type "l" (that's an L, not a 1), like thelatemail suggested

    box(bty="l")

3. Add axis ticks at desired values.

    axis(2)
    axis(1) #if you really want x-axis ticks here...

Answer 2

I think you need to use axis(side=1) after plotting.

x <- 1:5
boxplot(x, frame.plot = FALSE)
axis(side = 1)

This gives