In the pairs help is an example how to plot the correlation as txt. How do I get rid of the axes in the upper panel? regards ## put (absolute) correlations on the upper panels, ## with size proportional to the correlations. panel.cor <- function(x, y, digits = 3, prefix = "", cex.cor,axis=F, ...) { tt<-cbind(x,y) idx<-apply(tt,1,function(x){sum(is.na(x))==0}) x<-x[idx] y<-y[idx] usr <- par("usr"); on.exit(par(usr)) par(usr = c(0, 1, 0, 1)) r <- abs(cor(x, y)) print(r) txt <- format(c(r, 0.123456789), digits = digits)[1] txt <- paste0(prefix, txt) if(missing(cex.cor)) cex.cor <- 0.8/strwidth(txt) text(0.5, 0.5, txt, cex = r^20*cex.cor) } -- Witold Eryk Wolski