How to get rid or alter default axis labels and/or titles in density plot?

r label subtitle
Oleksandr picture Oleksandr · Apr 24, 2012 · Viewed 24.6k times · Source

I would like to know, how can I alter "default" x label (or subtitle) in density plot in R. For example, I do not wand this text "N = ..., bandwidth = ..." to be on the plot (I do not know if it is x-label or subtitle, but it usually appears under x-axis).

Answer

csgillespie picture csgillespie · Apr 24, 2012

You should just use the standard plotting arguments to change the labels:

plot(density(rnorm(10)), 
     xlab="X", #Change the x-axis label
     ylab="Density", #y-axis label
     main="A nice title")#Main title

See the plotting help page: ?plot and the documentation.

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