Remove space between axes and text - r

Good evening everybody,
I'm getting about a problem with a multiple boxplot in R.
I would like to remove the space between the numbers on the y-axes
and the axes itself. I don't want to move the label, with mtext(),
and it's not a problem with the margins par(mar()).
Thank you very much here there is an example: I would get the numbers (-1,1) closer to the axes.

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