Re: simple plot

[Sundar Dorai-Raj <sundar.dorai-raj@PDF.COM>]

Ping Zhang wrote:
> hi all,
> I was trying to produce a simple plot with empty tick marks and labels, 
> to be added later on with the axis() function. When I do
> plot(x,y, lab=F)
>
> however, I got a plot with the horizontal axis stretching out of bound 
> in both directions. Anybody know why this happens, how to fix it, or 
> alternative ways to accomplish this?
> -Ping Zhang
> Avaya Labs
Hi Ping,

I think you want:

plot(x, y, axes = FALSE)
axis(side = 1) # add x-axis
axis(side = 2) # add y-axis
box()          # add frame around plot area

If you look at ?par you will see why your original attempt was incorrect.

--sundar