box
Draw a Box around a Plot
This function draws a box around the current plot in the given color
and linetype. The bty
parameter determines
the type of box drawn. See par
for details.
- Keywords
- aplot
Usage
box(which = "plot", lty = "solid", …)
Arguments
- which
character, one of
"plot"
,"figure"
,"inner"
and"outer"
.- lty
line type of the box.
- …
further graphical parameters, such as
bty
,col
, orlwd
, seepar
. Note thatxpd
is not accepted as clipping is always to the device region.
Details
The choice of colour is complicated. If col
was supplied
and is not NA
, it is used. Otherwise, if fg
was supplied
and is not NA
, it is used. The final default is par("col")
.
References
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
See Also
rect
for drawing of arbitrary rectangles.
Examples
library(graphics)
plot(1:7, abs(stats::rnorm(7)), type = "h", axes = FALSE)
axis(1, at = 1:7, labels = letters[1:7])
box(lty = '1373', col = 'red')
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