Plot Grid line colours

Is it possible to change the colours of the major and minor grid lines in a plot figure without changing the colour of the tickmark annotations (the numbers)? For example, I would like to have pale gridlines, whilst keeping the annotations black. There doesn't appear to be any way that I can see of accessing the annotations separately from the gridlines. The only way I can think of to do this is to plot the grids twice - once in the light colour - and then again in black, with the grid set of "off", thus overwriting just the numbers... There has to be a better way!

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

The only other way I can think of to accomplish this, which is just as kludgy as your method, would be to draw the gridlines manually, using the line() function. This would give you independent control of their color.