[R] Customizing x-axis with stripchart

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Nov 24, 2007 11:29 PM, Max Kuhn <mxkuhn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 24, 2007 7:14 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 24, 2007 7:01 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> > > On 24/11/2007 6:22 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> > > > On Nov 24, 2007 11:14 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> > > >>>> With plot, one can use to the option 'axes=F' to remove axes. I have
> > > >>>> tried it with stripchart, but no success. How can one then customize
> > > >>>> the x-axis with stripchart?
> > > >>> stripchart() doesn't give you that option.  You could edit the source to
> > > >>> do it if you want.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The r-devel version has more flexibility than R 2.6.0, but axes=F is not
> > > >>> currently there.  It probably should be.
> > > >> It is now.  So your choices are to edit the stripchart code in an
> > > >> released version, or try out r-devel.  If you're using a binary build,
> > > >> better wait a day or two for this change to make it in.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, Duncan. I do not have the proper expertise to do that; so, I
> > > > will wait for the next official release of R.
> > >
> > > That's coming on Monday, and will be 2.6.1.  This won't make it into
> > > there; you'll have to wait for 2.7.0 in April.
> > >
> > > But it really isn't that hard to do:  just type fix(stripchart), and it
> > > will be pretty clear what to delete (the calls to box(), axis(), and
> > > Axis()).
> >
> > or download it from:
> >
> > https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/graphics/R/stripchart.R
> >
> > and then
> >
> > source("stripchart.R")
> >
> > (Is there some way to source it directly without downloading it and
> > then sourcing it?
> > source() does not appear to work directly with https:)
>
> I never had any issues when using
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>   source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
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> as suggested at
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>   http://bioconductor.org/download
>
> Perhaps there is some formatting issue with the target file.

This discussion is about https.  Your example uses http, not https.