[R] Removing X and Y labels in graph error

[Phil Spector]

Contrast the behaviour of these two statements:

> plot(x,y,xlab=NULL,ylab=NULL)
> plot(x,y,xlab='',ylab='')

In other words, use xlab='' to supress the label, not NULL.

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, poolmunch wrote:

>
> Hello, had a quick search on the site but no luck.
>
> Heres my problem, when attempting to xlab = NULL and ylab = NULL it displays
>
> x[[1L]] and X[[2L]] as labels on the axis.
>
> plot(USSenate[,1:2],col=c("blue","grey","red")[unclass(USSenate$Senate)],pch=unclass(USSenate$Senate),
> type="n",xaxt="n", yaxt="n",main = NULL, sub = NULL, xlab = NULL, ylab =
> NULL)
>
>
>
>
> Ive been able to get rid of it by xlab = " " but this is not satisfactory as
> the graph size must change as well.
>
> Thanks to anyone who has a look at what must be a stupid question...
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