Plot padding when `showaxis` false

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I would like to make some plots where the y axis is not shown. I can do this by setting yshowaxis=false, but there is then ugly excess padding on the left of the figure.

For example:

using Plots
y=[1,1000000]
plot(y,yshowaxis=false,yticks=[0,1000000])

It seems that the axis is being created and then made invisible, rather than the plot area being calculated correctly in the first instance. Is there any workaround to this behaviour?

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One idea would be to set the yticks to nothing, like this:

using Plots
gr()
y=[1,1000000]
testplot = plot(y,yshowaxis=false,yticks=nothing, size=(1000,800))
savefig(testplot, "noticks.png")

Which produces the following:

noticks
noticks1000×800 17.7 KB

3

OK, that definitely helps, thanks very much.

By the way, just noticing in this simple example - the x axis scale is very weird, is this a bug?