Date class does not support times. See R News 4/1 for a discussion of the difference between different classes.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM, somewhereondearth <somewhereond.ea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > HI, > > I couldn't get your problem exactly, but if you are looking for dates on > x-axis, then try using > axis.Date() option. > you can give the weekly, daily sequence if you like.( I am trying for a > 6-hour sequence, but hasn't got it yet). > > > > Neotropical bat risk assessments wrote: >> >> I am having difficulties getting the X-axis labels (dates) to be as >> needed when plotting from chron >> >> The help syntax from chron lists this example: >> >> x <- chron(dates = c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92", "02/28/92"), >> >> >> I have activity plots by time on the y-axis and the dates on the >> x-axis. What I need/want is that the dates remain the same for a give >> set of data i.e. 10/25/2006 to 03/30/2007 as with some data sets >> within this time frame there is no activity for all of the dates so >> each plot has a different set of dates. >> >> >> Below works great but when I try to constrain the dates it crashes... >> >> DF <- read.table(textConnection(Lines), header = TRUE, as.is = TRUE) >> DF$Date <- chron(DF$Date) >> DF$Time <- times(paste(DF$Time, 0, sep = ":")) >> at <- c(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24) >> plot(Time ~ Date, DF, ylim = 0:1, yaxt = "n",main= "Centronycteris >> centralis") >> axis(2, at/24, lab = paste(at, "00", sep = ":"), las = 1, cex.axis = .7) >> >> Thanks to all here on the group, >> >> Bruce Miller >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Problems-with-labeling-a-set-X-axis-in-chron-plots-tp22047913p22048996.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.