Factor plot does not completely obey axes specification

[fonnesbeck]

I'm trying to generate a factorplot on a specific set of axes, which I generate using matplotlib's subplots function.

import seaborn as sb
sb.set_context("talk", font_scale=0.8)
sb.set_style("white")

f, axes = plt.subplots(figsize=(14,8))
g = sb.factorplot("Age", "S", "Confirmation", S_age_june, kind="box",
                   palette="PRGn", aspect=1.25, linewidth=0.3, fliersize=0, ax=axes)
g.despine(offset=10, trim=True)
g.set_axis_labels("Age Group", "Susceptibles");

However, running this code in IPython generates an extra, blank, partially-formatted set of axes below the plot of the data (which has not received the formatting specified to g):

Running 0.6.dev on Python 3.4 (Homebrew).

[fonnesbeck]

Solved my particular problem using size and aspect, but nevertheless I would expect that once ax is specified for g that all subsequent methods applied to g would operate on those axes.

[mwaskom]

Indeed, we can say more strongly: factorplot does not at all obey axes specification. See here for an explanation.

If you just want to set up the axes that way so you can have a figure with a specific size, you can pass size=8, aspect=14 / 8. to factorplot. Note also that since you're on 0.6 dev you can do hue grouping in sns.boxplot, which can plot onto an existing Axes.

[fonnesbeck]

OK, I'm satisfied. Thanks.