box                   package:base                   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'.

See Also:

     `rect' for drawing of arbitrary rectangles.

Examples:

     plot(1:7,abs(rnorm(7)), type='h', axes = FALSE)
     axis(1, labels = letters[1:7])
     box(lty='137', col = 'red')

