box {graphics}R Documentation

Draw a Box around a Plot

Description

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.

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, or lwd, see par. Note that xpd 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

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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