On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:24:23AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I think there is no disagreement in the help, but your experience does > disagree with my experiments. > > font: font for text. > > col: color for the axis line and the tick marks. The default > 'NULL' means to use 'par("fg")'. > > 'col.axis' The color to be used for axis annotation. > > 'col.lab' The color to be used for x and y labels. > > 'font.axis' The font to be used for axis annotation. > > Try > > > plot(1:10, col.axis="gold", col.lab="blue", font.axis=3) > > axis(side=4, at=1:10, col="green", col.axis="gold", col.lab="blue", > font.axis=3, font=2) > > So when calling axis, the colour of the line and the tick marks is set by > "col" and that of the labels by "col.axis" and the xlab and ylab by > "col.lab". Three separate components, three colour settings.
Ah, very nice. So all I needed was col.axis. Now that I think about it, I guess I knew it was mentioned in ?par. > As for fonts, "font" rules when supplied to axis, otherwise "font.axis" is > used. > > I'll add a note to axis.Rd. Very good. Thanks, Dirk -- Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help