[R] turn off selected axes in bwplot

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On 2/6/06, William Briggs <wib2004 at med.cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> I want to turn off selected axes in bwplot.  I would like to only have the
> bottom axis drawn, with the others off.

Does this do what you want?

bwplot(<...>,
       scales = list(x = list(alternating = 1, tck = c(1, 0))))

This is described in detail under 'scales' in ?bwplot.

-Deepayan

> I have a series of bwplots that I want on one device, like this:
>
> p1<-bwplot(x1,box.ratio=.1)
> p2<-bwplot(x2,box.ratio=.1)
> ...
> print(p1,position=c(0,.8,1,1),more=T)
> print(p2,position=c(0,.6,1,.8),more=T)
> ...
>
> I know about the panel functions panel.bwplot() and panel.axis(), but I
> don't know how to directly call them and change, for example, the side
> parameter of panel.axis(), leaving all the other parameters of both panel
> functions untouched.
>
> The axis can be turned off altogether with:
>
> trellis.par.set(axis.line = list( color="transparent"))
>
> but this is obviously not what I need.