Dear Jean, That is a simple and effective solution. Thank you!
Best, Shige On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Jean V Adams <jvad...@usgs.gov> wrote: > > Shige Song wrote on 12/12/2011 07:49:39 PM: > > >> Dear All, >> >> I am fitting a simple GAM model using the "gam" function in the "mgcv" >> package. The only independent variable is a continuous variable >> representing the time of the event (in year and month) coded so that >> "0" represents January 1960, "1" represents February 1960, etc. Now >> when I try to plot the results, my x-axis ranges from "-200" to "200", >> what I want is to convert these number into something like "1950-01" >> or "Jan. 1950". What is the best way to do this? >> >> Many thanks. >> >> Best, >> Shige > > > How about decimal years? Would that suffice? > > yourdates <- -200:200 > dec.year <- 1960 + yourdates/12 > > Jean ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
