Yaxis invisible

I would like to make the yaxis invisible without getting rid of the text.

'axis off' is no good, because that gets rid of the ylabel, which I would like to keep.

I have tried:

set(gca,'box','off','ycolor','w')

but this also turns the text color to white.

In the end effect, I just don't want a black outline around my plots to be shown.

I have tried 'box off' but that doesnt seem to get rid of the black outline around my plots or subplots.

Answer 1

[Matt Fig]

I don't think there is a way of doing it directly. Here is a hackey way of getting what you want for the Y-axis. Do similar for the other axis.

plot(1:10)
X = get(gca,'xlim')
xlim(X)
Y = get(gca,'ylim')
ylim(Y)
P = patch([X(1)-.05 X(1)-.05 X(1)+.1 X(1)+.1],[Y(1) Y(2) Y(2) Y(1)],...
          [1 1 1 1],[1 1 1],'edgecolor',[1 1 1])
box off