Sean Pieper wrote: > ah-- this isn't clear from the documentation :-). I see that. I've fixed the docs in R-devel, and will do the same in R-patched if I have enough time before my flight...
Duncan > > Thanks for the work around! > > -sean > > On 6/18/06, *Duncan Murdoch* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Full_Name: Sean Pieper > > Version: 2.3.1 > > OS: Windows > > Submission from: (NULL) (67.188.92.37 <http://67.188.92.37>) > > > > > > Hi, I am trying to create a qualitative figure for which I don't > want tick marks > > or numbers, but having some axes would be nice. > > > > If I do: > > > > plot.new() > > axis(2,labels=FALSE,tick=FALSE,lty="solid",lwd=1) > > > > I expect this should give me a vertical line on the left edge of > the plot, but > > nothing draws. When I run: > > > > axis(2,labels=FALSE,tick=TRUE,lty="solid",lwd=1) > > > > both the line and the ticks draw > > > > If I type: > > > > axis(2,labels=TRUE,tick=FALSE,lty="solid",lwd=1) > > > > I get numbers, but still no axis line. > > > > I also checked with axis(1,...) and saw the same behavior. > > I don't think this is a bug, just the way it is > designed. Normally axis > only draws the line between the extreme ticks, not for the > whole length of the axis. If you have no tick, you have no line. > > You might get what you want with box(), or by drawing the axes using > abline(), e.g. > > abline(v=par("usr")[1]) > > for a vertical line at the lower limit of x values. As ?par says, > par("usr") is: > > A vector of the form c(x1, x2, y1, y2) giving the extremes of the user > coordinates of the plotting region. When a logarithmic scale is in use > (i.e., par("xlog") is true, see below), then the x-limits will be > 10 ^ > par("usr")[1:2]. Similarly for the y-axis. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
