[R] eliminating panel borders from lattice plots

[John Bullock]

> On 3/25/07, John Bullock
> <john.bullock at stanford.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to eliminate panel borders from my
>> lattice plots.  By default, they always print.
>> For
>> example:
>>
>>    library(lattice)
>>    x <- seq(-3,3,length=1000)
>>    y1 <- dnorm(x)
>>    y2 <- dnorm(x, sd=.5)
>>    data <- data.frame(x=rep(x,2), y=c(y,y2),
>>        panel=rep(c(1,2), each=1000))
>>    dplot <- xyplot(y~x | panel, data=data,
>> strip=F,
>>        scales=list(draw=F))
>>    print(dplot, scales=list(draw=F))
>>
>> prints borders around each panel.  I see no way
>> to get rid of them short of creating a panel
>> function and "painting over" these default
>> borders with grid.rect().  But I suspect that
>> there is an easier way -- is there?
>>
>> I searched the archives but saw nothing on this.
>> I'm running R 2.3.1 with lattice 0.13.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> --John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
To: "John Bullock" <john.bullock at stanford.edu>
Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: [R] eliminating panel borders from
lattice plots


> Try adding this argument to your xyplot call:
>
>   par.settings = list(axis.line = list(col = 0))
>
> The subparameters oif axis.line are:
>
>  trellis.par.get()$axis.line
>
> in case you want to temporarily set others.
>

Thank you.  That worked beautifully.