[R] Customizing x-axis with stripchart

[Duncan Murdoch]

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()).

Duncan Murdoch