On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:36 AM, jpm miao <miao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am plotting time series by ggplot2, but I believe that my question
> applies to other plotting tool as well.
>
> I want to make my x-axis the quarterly scale, e.g:
> 2000Q1 2000Q2.....
>
> However, scale_x_date and date_format("%m/%d") support all time formats
> BUT QUARTERs........
>
> library(scales) # to access breaks/formatting functions
> dt + scale_x_date()
> dt + scale_x_date(labels = date_format("%m/%d"))
>
1. zoo has a "yearqtr" class and its ggplot2 interface includes
scale_x_yearqtr() so:
library(zoo)
library(ggplot2)
library(scales)
# test data
DF <- data.frame(date = seq(as.Date("2014-01-01"), length = 4, by = "3
months"),
y = c(1, 4, 2, 3))
# convert date to yearmon class
DF2 <- transform(DF, date = as.yearqtr(date))
ggplot(DF2, aes(date, y)) + geom_line() + scale_x_yearqtr(format = "%YQ%q")
2. zoo also has a zoo method for ggplot2's autoplot generic so we
could just convert DF to zoo and write:
z <- zoo(DF$y, as.yearqtr(DF$date))
autoplot(z) + scale_x_yearqtr(format = "%YQ%q")
In both cases if the format argument is omitted one gets a default of
format = "%Y-%q".
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