Re: [R] Plot ticks and tick labels: thickness, colour?

2003-08-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Thomas W Blackwell wrote: You can certainly make tickmarks thinner than the axis line by multiple calls to axis() with different values for lwd. MAYBE you can overwrite an earlier call by setting col.axis=white (and no tickmarks) but I've never tried this. mtext()

Re: [R] Plot ticks and tick labels: thickness, colour?

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas W Blackwell
Dirk - You can certainly make tickmarks thinner than the axis line by multiple calls to axis() with different values for lwd. MAYBE you can overwrite an earlier call by setting col.axis=white (and no tickmarks) but I've never tried this. mtext() allows building custom tick labels. In

Re: [R] Plot ticks and tick labels: thickness, colour?

2003-08-14 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: I am displaying several series in one plot, and would like to make them distinct without having to employ a legend. I managed to color tickmarks, but have been unsuccessful with either one of a) making tickmarks thicker (without

Re: [R] Plot ticks and tick labels: thickness, colour?

2003-08-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
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

Re: [R] Plot ticks and tick labels: thickness, colour?

2003-08-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Marc, Thanks a lot -- the axTicks(), segments() and mtext() solution looks like what I was looking for. Regards, Dirk -- Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx