Thanks a lot. That's what I was looking for. Must have missed the fg bit in
the ? par.
Cheers,
Umesh
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 04/04/2009 5:13 PM, Umesh Srinivasan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to use par to change the colours of the axes lines (not the
>> labels)? I've done this:
>>
>> par(bg = "black")
>> plot(x, y, col = "yellow", pch = 16)
>>
>> but I have to use
>>
>> axes = F within the plot command, and then use
>>
>> axis (1, col = "yellow")
>> axis (2, col = "yellow")
>>
>> and so on for axes 3 & 4.
>>
>> This does not help since the new axes are not of the same length as the
>> default 'box' that you get around a plot.
>>
>
> You can use box() to draw a box. So you can get yellow axes and box using
>
> plot(1,1, axes=F)
> axis(1, col="yellow")
> axis(2, col="yellow")
> box(col="yellow")
>
> par() doesn't have an option for this. plot() will use the default
> par("col") setting for the box, but that also affects the points being
> drawn.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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