The multiple y axes are protecting you in this situation.
z <- cbind(rnorm(100,c(1,10),1), rnorm(100,c(20,30),1)) dotplot(z[,1]+z[,2] ~ facs$Treatment|facs$Sites, outer=TRUE, scales = list( y = list( relation="free")), ylab=c("y1", "y2"), xlab=c("Site 1", "Site 2"), strip=FALSE, main="problem") dotplot(z[,1]+z[,2] ~ facs$Treatment|facs$Sites, outer=TRUE, scales = list( y = list( relation="free", limits=list(c(-5,13),c(-5,13),c(18,32),c(18,32)))), ylab=c("y1", "y2"), xlab=c("Site 1", "Site 2"), strip=FALSE, main="protected") For more control (such as suppressing the y-tick labels in the right-hand column, I recommend Deepayan Sarkar's book. Rich [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.