one other thing- should I read the data in with the argument FUN=as.chron
? if this is the case how do I tell chron that the data is not in
YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS but in the format m/d/y HH:MM:SS ?
thanks
stephen
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:32 AM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Like for instance that the xlim is small enough where the plot is showing
> the day instead of the year (I believe). Now that I have figured this out
> (I think). I would like to know if there is a way to tell plot.zoo how to
> print the date ranges easily. When I did the example in my previous email
> only 9/09 showed up. I am trying to close in on widows of data and need a
> little more resolution on the x-axis. For instance when I am inside of a
> month of data the month day- inside of a day the day time or something like
> this.
> Any thoughts would be appreciated
>
> Stephen
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:25 AM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I have a matrix with data that runs from 1/1/06 00:01:00-1/31/08
>> 23:46:00. I have read in the data with this
>>
>> fmt.chron <- function(x) {
>> chron(sub(" .*", "", x), gsub(".* (.*)", "\\1:00", x))
>> }
>>
>> x <- read.zoo(file.choose(), sep=",", header=T, FUN=fmt.chron)
>>
>> plotted with this
>> plot(x[,(seq(3, by=9, length.out=12))], xlim=c(chron("9/01/2006",
>> "00:01:00"), chron("1/31/2007", "12:46:00")))
>>
>> and I was excited to be able to plot subsets with date and it worked it
>> worked fine until I put in the above and the axis displays 9/09, but still
>> seems to plot the data when I change the xlim.
>> Thank you very much
>>
>> Stephen
>> I can provide data - I am doing a dry run to see if there is something
>> glaringly obvious that I am missing
>> --
>> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so
>> little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us
>> feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little
>> problems of being mammals.
>>
>> -K. Mullis
>
>
>
>
> --
> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so
> little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us
> feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little
> problems of being mammals.
>
> -K. Mullis
>
--
Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so
little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us
feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little
problems of being mammals.
-K. Mullis
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