On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Ben Bolker wrote:

par(ann=FALSE) appears to have no effect on
hist.default; it would be nice if it did ...
(boxplot, which plots via bxp, which calls
internal do_title, does -- in a quick search
I can't figure out where the value of ann
takes effect ...)

From the ?par:

     'ann' If set to 'FALSE', high-level plotting functions calling
          'plot.default' do not annotate the plots they produce with
          axis titles and overall titles.  The default is to do
          annotation.

So strictly this is correct, as plot.histogram does not call plot.default. The par is only used at R level, as a default for an argument in plot.default and never as an in-line parameter.

So I think what you are asking for is a 'ann' argument to plot.histogram, which would then be passed down from hist(). The only issue then is if par("ann") should set the default, and the current documentation says not.

Does that meet your needs?

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