R help - Jun 2007 - plot only x- and y-axis with origin, no box()

hi all,

I'm trying for quite some time to have an x- and y-axis, but no entire box.
>plot(..,axes=F)
>axis(1)
>axis(2)
Gives this, but their axes do not go to the origin.
Quite a number of people find this gap between the two axes disturbing.
Has anyone an idea how to let these axes go to the origin?

thank you in advance

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On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:15 +0200, Talloen, Willem [PRDBE]
wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I'm trying for quite some time to have an x- and y-axis, but no entire
box.
> 
> >plot(..,axes=F)
> >axis(1)
> >axis(2)
> Gives this, but their axes do not go to the origin.
> Quite a number of people find this gap between the two axes disturbing.
> Has anyone an idea how to let these axes go to the origin?
> 
> thank you in advance
See this post:

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/03/0911.html

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

Hello,

You are looking for the box function, and its bty argument. For example, 
this one will do the trick.

R> box( bty = "L")

?par gives more information on the potential values for bty.

Cheers,

Romain


Talloen, Willem [PRDBE] wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I'm trying for quite some time to have an x- and y-axis, but no entire
box.
>
>   
>> plot(..,axes=F)
>> axis(1)
>> axis(2)
>>     
> Gives this, but their axes do not go to the origin.
> Quite a number of people find this gap between the two axes disturbing.
> Has anyone an idea how to let these axes go to the origin?
>
> thank you in advance
>   
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Try:
> plot(.., bty='l')
Does that do what you want?  (see the bty parameter in ?par for details)

If you don't want the lines extending beyond the axes on the right and
top then you could do something more like:
> plot(5:10, 5:10, bty='n')
> library(TeachingDemos)
> lines(cnvrt.coords( c(0,0,.5), c(.5,0,0), input='plt')$usr)
You may also get what you want by playing with the xaxp and yaxp
parameters to par, but the bty='l' seems the easiest way to go. 

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> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] plot only x- and y-axis with origin, no box()
> 
> hi all,
> 
> I'm trying for quite some time to have an x- and y-axis, but 
> no entire box.
> 
> >plot(..,axes=F)
> >axis(1)
> >axis(2)
> Gives this, but their axes do not go to the origin.
> Quite a number of people find this gap between the two axes 
> disturbing.
> Has anyone an idea how to let these axes go to the origin?
> 
> thank you in advance
> 
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perfect Romain,
box( bty = "l", lwd = 2 )
is the solution !
thank you all for your kind responses,
willem

-----Original Message-----
From: Romain Francois [mailto:rfrancois at mango-solutions.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2007 10:01
To: Talloen, Willem [PRDBE]
Subject: Re: [R] plot only x- and y-axis with origin, no box()


Talloen, Willem [PRDBE] wrote:
> Yes Greg,
>
> Your provided solution does the job;
>   
>> plot(5:10, 5:10, bty='n')
>> library(TeachingDemos)
>> lines(cnvrt.coords( c(0,0,.5), c(.5,0,0), input='plt')$usr)
>>     
>
> The easy way is indeed to do 
>   
>> plot(.., bty='l')
>>     
> but this cannot be used in combination with fixing tickmarks and changing
width of the axes.
>
> HOWEVER, there is still a small error. The width of the added y-axis has
not the same width;
>   
>> plot(5:10, 5:10,axes=F)
>> axis(1,lwd=2)
>> axis(2,lwd=2)
>> library(TeachingDemos)
>> lines(cnvrt.coords( c(0,0,.5), c(.5,0,0),
input='plt')$usr,lwd=2)
>>     
Hi Willem ,

In that case, I would go with a vanilla `plot` call and then add `axis` 
and `box` low-level function calls:

plot( 5:10, 5:10, axes = FALSE  )
axis( 1, lwd = 2, .. )
axis( 2, lwd = 2, .. )
box( bty = "l", lwd = 2 )

Cheers,

Romain
> Any ideas?
> Willem
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Snow [mailto:Greg.Snow at intermountainmail.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2007 18:23
> To: Talloen, Willem [PRDBE]; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [R] plot only x- and y-axis with origin, no box()
>
>
>
> Try:
>
>   
>> plot(.., bty='l')
>>     
>
> Does that do what you want?  (see the bty parameter in ?par for details)
>
> If you don't want the lines extending beyond the axes on the right and
> top then you could do something more like:
>
>   
>> plot(5:10, 5:10, bty='n')
>> library(TeachingDemos)
>> lines(cnvrt.coords( c(0,0,.5), c(.5,0,0), input='plt')$usr)
>>     
>
> You may also get what you want by playing with the xaxp and yaxp
> parameters to par, but the bty='l' seems the easiest way to go. 
>
>   

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