ggplot2 plot without axes, legends, etc

Question

I want to use bioconductor\'s hexbin (which I can do) to generate a plot that fills the entire (png) display region - no axes, no labels, no background, no nuthin\'.

Answer 1

Late to the party, but might be of interest...

I find a combination of labs and guides specification useful in many cases:

You want nothing but a grid and a background:

ggplot(diamonds, mapping = aes(x = clarity)) + 
  geom_bar(aes(fill = cut)) + 
  labs(x = NULL, y = NULL) + 
  guides(x = "none", y = "none")

You want to only suppress the tick-mark label of one or both axes:

ggplot(diamonds, mapping = aes(x = clarity)) + 
  geom_bar(aes(fill = cut)) + 
  guides(x = "none", y = "none")