Thanks for the follow-up. Per your suggestion, I was able to plot the data for the last 30 days with no problem.
However... I am still confused about the y-axis labels (values, title, etc) not plotting. If the scripting works as it should, what could cause the labels not to show up? A while ago I think that I accidentally changed something (not sure what) on the default settings (I was trying to learn how to make plots), and I wonder if this could cause the problem I am having... On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote: > On 11/27/2013 05:32 PM, Luke M wrote: > >> Dear R community >> >> I am trying to make an XY plot that shows temperature (y axis) as a >> function of time (x axis) but I am having some problems. When I use the >> code shown below: >> >> 1. my plot does not show any of the y-axis labels even though there is >> plenty of white space there (i.e.: I am getting no y-axis title, and no >> y-axis labels at each tick mark). Is my command syntax incorrect? >> >> 2. Also, I was wondering... is there a way to tell R to plot the last 30 >> days of data in the x-axis? >> >> >> Thank you so much in advance!! >> >> >> Here's my code so far: >> >> bdata=read.table('cleandata.asc',header=FALSE) >> dates1<- strptime(paste(bdata$V2, bdata$V3), format="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S") >> temp1 = bdata[,4] >> par(mar=c(5, 6, 4, 2)) >> plot(dates1, temp1,type="o",col="red",pch=20,xlab="x axis", main="my >> plot", >> ylab="y axis", ylim=c(0,40), yaxp = c(0,40,10)) >> >> >> PS: just fyi, my data looks like this: >> >> Hi Luke, > Thanks for including the data. When I plot it, I get both y axis label and > y axis tick labels. > > If you only want the last 30 days, you could select them like this: > > last30<-dates1 >= strptime("2013-10-14","%Y-%m-%d") > plot(dates1[last30],temp1[last30],type="o",col="red",pch=20, > > xlab="x axis", main="my plot", ylab="y axis", ylim=c(0,40), > yaxp = c(0,40,10)) > > Jim > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.