[R] Turning off axis annotation?

[Bill Simpson]

In order to get help on plots you need to do BOTH
?plot
and
?par

Many par arguments can be used as plot arguments. Not all of them though.
I never had a clear explanation of this.

So if you do ?par you will see

 ann: If set to `FALSE', high-level plotting functions do not
          annotate the plots they produce with axis and overall titles.
          The default is to do annotation.

And so you do
plot(x,y,ann=FALSE)
This leaves off the x and y titles. You still have the numerical labels
next to each tick.

If you want a lot of control you can do

plot(x,y,ann=FALSE,axes=FALSE)
box()  
axis(side=1,labels=TRUE)
axis(side=2,labels=TRUE)
mtext("Y", side=2, line=2)
mtext("X", side=1, line=2)

You might want to do ?axis

Bill

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