\HeaderA{Axis}{Generic function to add an Axis to a Plot}{Axis}
\keyword{aplot}{Axis}
\begin{Description}\relax
Generic function to add a suitable axis to the current plot.
\end{Description}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}
Axis(x = NULL, at = NULL, ..., side, labels = NULL)
\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{Arguments}
\begin{ldescription}
\item[\code{x}] an object which indicates the range over which an axis should
be drawn
\item[\code{at}] the points at which tick-marks are to be drawn.
\item[\code{side}] an integer specifying which side of the plot the axis is
to be drawn on.  The axis is placed as follows: 1=below,
2=left, 3=above and 4=right.
\item[\code{labels}] this can either be a logical value specifying whether
(numerical) annotations are to be made at the tickmarks, or a vector
of character strings or expressions to be placed at the tickpoints.
If this is specified as strings or expressions, \code{at} should be
supplied and they should be the same length.
\item[\code{...}] Arguments to be passed to methods and perhaps then to
\code{\LinkA{axis}{axis}}.
\end{ldescription}
\end{Arguments}
\begin{Details}\relax
This is a generic function.  It works in a slightly non-standard way:
if \code{x} is supplied and non-NULL it dispatches on \code{x},
otherwise if \code{at} is supplied and non-NULL it dispatches on \code{at},
and the default action is to call \code{\LinkA{axis}{axis}}, omitting argument
\code{x}.

The idea is that for plots for which either or both of the axes are
numerical but with a special interpretation, the standard plotting
functions (including \code{\LinkA{boxplot}{boxplot}}, \code{\LinkA{contour}{contour}},
\code{\LinkA{coplot}{coplot}}, \code{\LinkA{filled.contour}{filled.contour}},
\code{\LinkA{pairs}{pairs}}, \code{\LinkA{plot.default}{plot.default}}, \code{\LinkA{rug}{rug}} and
\code{\LinkA{stripchart}{stripchart}}) will set up user coordinates and \code{Axis}
will be called to label them appropriately.

There are \code{"Date"}, \code{"POSIXct"} and \code{"POSIXlt"}
methods which can pass an argument \code{format} onto the
\LinkA{appropriate}{appropriate} \code{axis} method.
\end{Details}
\begin{Value}
The numeric locations on the axis scale at which tick marks were drawn
when the plot was first drawn (see Details).

This function is usually invoked for its side effect, which is to add
an axis to an already existing plot.
\end{Value}
\begin{SeeAlso}\relax
\code{\LinkA{axis}{axis}}.
\end{SeeAlso}

