[R] [FORGED] How to remove box in Venn plots (Vennerable package, uses grid) - similar to bty="n" in standard plots

Paul Murrell paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz
Sun Nov 13 20:57:15 CET 2016


Hi

Can you supply some example code?

You might get some joy from grid.ls() to identify the box followed by 
grid.remove() to get rid of it;  some example code would allow me to 
provide more detailed advice.

Paul

On 12/11/16 05:12, DE LAS HERAS Jose wrote:
> I'm using the package Vennerable to make Venn diagrams, but it always
> makes a box around the diagram.
>
> Using standard R plots I could eliminate that by indicating
>
>
> bty="n"
>
>
> but it seems Vennerable uses the Grid package to generate its plots
> and I'm not really familiar enough with Grid. I was looking at the
> documentation but I can't seem to find a way to achieve that. I'd
> even be happy drawing a white rectangle with wide lines to overplot
> the box, but there must be a way to not draw the box in the first
> place.
>
>
> Anybody knows how?
>
>
> Jose
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