[R] axes=F with pairs()

[Henrik Andersson]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Henrik Andersson wrote:
> 
> 
>>If I want to fiddle with the axes, I normally plot things like this for 
>>instance
>>
>>plot(1:5,axes=F)
>>axis(2,labels=letters[1:5])
>>
>>BUT, if I want to do remove the axes from a scatter plot matrix using i.e.
>>
>>pairs(cbind(runif(10),runif(10)),axes=F)
>>
>>I get
>>
>>Error in plot.default(x[, j], x[, i], xlab = "", ylab = "", axes = 
>>FALSE,  :
>>	formal argument "axes" matched by multiple actual arguments
> 
> 
> As always, PLEASE read the help page before posting:
> 
>       ...: graphical parameters can be given as arguments to 'plot'.
> 
> and `axes' is *not* a graphical parameter (see ?par).
> 
> 
>>How do I remove the axes ?
> 
> 
> Use graphical parameters, as it says.  As in
> 
> pairs(~Fertility + Education + Catholic, data = swiss, 
>       subset = Education < 20, main = "Swiss data, Education < 20",
>       xaxt = "n", yaxt = "n")
> 

Thanks for the swift reply, I already read the help page for both pairs 
and par. It didn't make me any wiser though. (Is it so obvious that 
'axes' is not a graphical parameter when it obviously does something to 
graphs?)



Henrik