When plotting, option "showaxis" does not accept "Symbol" or "String" type

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Hi,
I am using Julia 1.0.3 in JuliaBox.
I am facing an error when trying to use the “showaxis” option in plotting.
I am trying to hide the labels of the x-axis, and display the labels of the y-axis.

According to the documentation, the option “showaxis” should accept “Bool, Symbol or String”.
But when I’m trying to use it, I am getting errors in non-boolean context.
Am I missing something?

Example code:

using Plots
gr()
plot(1,1,showaxis=:x)

The error message I get is:

TypeError: non-boolean (Symbol) used in boolean context

In fact, I am plotting in the polar coordinates system, and I would like to to move the axis of “r” to the left of the polar circle, as there are too many scatter dots inside the polar plot. But I can’s see any option for this.

Kind regards
Toni

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It seems the docs are wrong or outdated.
You may try

plot(1,1,xshowaxis=true)

and/or
yshowaxis

I found them here
https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/supported/
as not supported but they work (Julia 1.3.1 here).

For the polar plot it may be different.

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Many thanks! Yes indeed, it works with gr().

And I noticed that xshowaxis maps to polar Θ and yshowaxis maps to polar “r”.
So, it also works for polar plots. :slightly_smiling_face:

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