Removing axes in beeswarm plot

Question

I have a following "beeswarm" (a single-dimensional scatterplot)

library(beeswarm)
data(breast)
beeswarm(breast$time_survival,horizontal=TRUE)

Here is the resulting plot:

How can I get rid of the axes and the box around the plot, so that I can reintroduce only the X axis and nothing else around it?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '16 at 20:41

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If you create an empty plot first

plot(rnorm(10), type="n", axes=FALSE, xlim=c(0, 200), ylim=c(0.4, 1.6), 
     xlab="", ylab="")

Then you can use the add argument to get what you want

beeswarm(breast$time_survival,horizontal=TRUE, add=TRUE)

answered Apr 12 '16 at 20:41

csgillespie

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '17 at 08:35

2

You can use the "axes" argument (described in ?plot.default).

beeswarm(breast$time_survival, horizontal=TRUE, axes = FALSE)

answered Mar 23 '17 at 08:35

Aron Eklund

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