[R] Customizing x-axis with stripchart

[Max Kuhn]

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

   source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")

as suggested at

   http://bioconductor.org/download

Perhaps there is some formatting issue with the target file.

Max