Re: [R] suppress tick labels
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:33 +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 10:19 -0600, Paul Roebuck wrote: > >> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Sebastian Leuzinger wrote: > >> > >>> is R able to suppress tick labels (not tick marks)? i > >>> know there is a way around this with axes=F and then > >>> draw new axes, but it would be easier to suppress them > >>> in the first place. > >> > >> Something wrong with setting them to null string? > >> > >>> plot(rnorm(20), xlab="", ylab="") > > > > That's not what Sebastian requires. > > > > He would like the axis tick marks to be drawn, but without values at the > > tickmark locations, as opposed to the axis labels. > > > > There is not a direct way, but a possible workaround: > > > > plot(rnorm(20), col.axis = "white") > > > > This sets the tick mark label color to be the same as the background, > > thus unseen. > > However, if you use col.axis="transparent" or NA, if does directly > suppress drawing the labels. Prof. Ripley, Thanks for point that out, as I note Sundar did as well. I had forgotten about using 'transparent'. Thanks, Marc __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] suppress tick labels
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 10:19 -0600, Paul Roebuck wrote: >> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Sebastian Leuzinger wrote: >> >>> is R able to suppress tick labels (not tick marks)? i >>> know there is a way around this with axes=F and then >>> draw new axes, but it would be easier to suppress them >>> in the first place. >> >> Something wrong with setting them to null string? >> >>> plot(rnorm(20), xlab="", ylab="") > > That's not what Sebastian requires. > > He would like the axis tick marks to be drawn, but without values at the > tickmark locations, as opposed to the axis labels. > > There is not a direct way, but a possible workaround: > > plot(rnorm(20), col.axis = "white") > > This sets the tick mark label color to be the same as the background, > thus unseen. However, if you use col.axis="transparent" or NA, if does directly suppress drawing the labels. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] suppress tick labels
Sebastian Leuzinger wrote: > hello, > is R able to suppress tick labels (not tick marks)? i know there is a way > around this with axes=F and then draw new axes, but it would be easier to > suppress them in the first place. Not really suppressing them, but you could you do the following: plot(1:10, col.axis = "transparent") I'm not sure if this solution is device independent. --sundar __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] suppress tick labels
I think the question was about the __tick mark__ labels not the __axis__ labels. The standard way of dealing with this is, as Sebastian said, to draw customized axes. However, par(lab=c(1,5,5)) reduces the number of tick mark labels to 2 at the range of the axes, apparently, if that helps. lab=c(0,5,5)), which one might try to remove the labels, gives an error. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." - George E. P. Box > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Roebuck > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:19 AM > To: R Help Mailing List > Subject: Re: [R] suppress tick labels > > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Sebastian Leuzinger wrote: > > > is R able to suppress tick labels (not tick marks)? i > > know there is a way around this with axes=F and then > > draw new axes, but it would be easier to suppress them > > in the first place. > > Something wrong with setting them to null string? > > > plot(rnorm(20), xlab="", ylab="") > > -- > SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) > > __ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] suppress tick labels
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 10:19 -0600, Paul Roebuck wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Sebastian Leuzinger wrote: > > > is R able to suppress tick labels (not tick marks)? i > > know there is a way around this with axes=F and then > > draw new axes, but it would be easier to suppress them > > in the first place. > > Something wrong with setting them to null string? > > > plot(rnorm(20), xlab="", ylab="") That's not what Sebastian requires. He would like the axis tick marks to be drawn, but without values at the tickmark locations, as opposed to the axis labels. There is not a direct way, but a possible workaround: plot(rnorm(20), col.axis = "white") This sets the tick mark label color to be the same as the background, thus unseen. If you have an alternate background color, adjust the above accordingly. For plot.default() specifically and functions that behave similarly internally with respect to the axes, you could use: plot(rnorm(20), labels = FALSE) where the labels argument is passed to the internal axis drawing function. However, since 'labels' is passed as a "..." argument, you end up with a warning about 'labels' not being able to be set in a high level plot function, since it gets passed as a graphical par. Ultimately however, I do think that this behavior is best controlled by using "axes = FALSE" and then calling axis(x, labels = FALSE): plot(rnorm(20), axes = FALSE) axis(1, labels = FALSE) axis(2, labels = FALSE) box() Non-standard plot behavior is best done outside of the default plot function, where you have maximum flexibility. HTH, Marc Schwartz __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] suppress tick labels
On 1 Dec 2005, at 17:58, Sebastian Leuzinger wrote: > hello, > is R able to suppress tick labels (not tick marks)? i know there is a > way > around this with axes=F and then draw new axes, but it would be easier > to > suppress them in the first place. > You mean the numbers below or beside each tick? Looking at ?axis suggest that you could set labels=FALSE to suppress those. It indeed seems to work, although you get a warning for each omitted tick label (but you must get used to warnings if you plot()). Try: plot(rnorm(20), labels=FALSE) cheers, jari oksanen -- Jari Oksanen, Oulu, Finland __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] suppress tick labels
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Sebastian Leuzinger wrote: > is R able to suppress tick labels (not tick marks)? i > know there is a way around this with axes=F and then > draw new axes, but it would be easier to suppress them > in the first place. Something wrong with setting them to null string? > plot(rnorm(20), xlab="", ylab="") -- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
[R] suppress tick labels
hello, is R able to suppress tick labels (not tick marks)? i know there is a way around this with axes=F and then draw new axes, but it would be easier to suppress them in the first place. -- Sebastian Leuzinger Institute of Botany, University of Basel Schönbeinstr. 6 CH-4056 Basel ph0041 (0) 61 2673511 fax 0041 (0) 61 2673504 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] web http://pages.unibas.ch/botschoen/leuzinger __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
