[R] in axis() suppressing axis line but keeping tick marks

[Gabor Grothendieck]

You could try overwriting the axis with a white axis line
so it blends into the background.

plot(1:10, axes = FALSE)
axis(1)
axis(1, col = "white", tcl = 0)


On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Andrew Yee <yee at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out a parameter that will let you separately
> adjust the parameters for the axis line from the tick mark.
>
> In the following example, I would like to suppress the axis line, but keep
> the tick marks.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>
> foo <- data.frame(x=1:3, y=4:6)
> plot(foo$x, foo$y, type="n", axes=F)
> points(foo$x, foo$y)
> axis(side=1, at=foo$x, lty=0) #would like to figure out way to keep tick
> marks, but suppress axis line
>
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