[R] Suppress only Z axis tick marks and numbers in wireframe statement

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Matthew A. H. Walters <walte2ma at ufl.edu> wrote:
> I actually have several questions revolving around the generation of
> wireframe plots.
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> The most pressing is that which is described by the subject line.
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> I am trying to produce a figure with x, y, and z labels, but only tick marks
> on the x, and y axes.  I have supplied sample code below substituting the
> volcano data set for my own such that you may run the code and see the
> results.  Obviously the main title and labels don't make sense given the
> data as a result.  To be clear, my problem is that I don't wish the z axis
> tick mark to appear at all, not that they intersect with the Z label.

Try

         scales=list(arrows=F,distance=c(.75,.75,0.25),
                     cex=1,col="black",
                     z = list(draw = FALSE)),


-Deepayan

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> Thanks in advance for any help.
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> Matt
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> CODE:
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> require(lattice)
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> trellis.par.set("axis.line", list(col="transparent"))
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> wireframe(volcano,
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>          main="Correlated Beta Distributions",type='n',
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>          xlab=list("Egg Survival",rot=-18),
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>          ylab=list("Nestling Survival",rot=50),
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>          zlab=list("Density",rot=95),#zaxt="n",
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>          screen=list(z=-30,x=-60,y=0),light.source=c(90,-15,90),
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>          scales=list(arrows=F,distance=c(.75,.75,0.25),
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>                      cex=1,col="black"),
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>          aspect=c(1,.4),shade=T,colorkey=F,
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>          shade.colors = function(irr, ref, height, w = .4)
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>            grey(w * irr + (1 - w) * (1 - (1 - ref)^0.4)))
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