[R] dates in 0.99 and 1.0 windows

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On 11 Apr 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Troels Ring <tring at mail1.stofanet.dk> writes:
> 
> > Dear friends. I'm in windows version R1.0.0. The code below produced a very 
> > beautiful and efficient graph in R Version 0.99.0 Patched (February 9, 
> > 2000) but in the newest, the x-axis is unreadable with dates written 
> > unformatted. I tried to set the numbers using par(xaxp) or xaxs but to no 
> > avail. Since it was OK just in the last version I guess there might perhaps 
> > be something wrong somewhere or should I change the code ?
> > 
> > Thank you for the interesting and efficient program !!!!
> 
> Looks OK to me with the current prerelease and newest version of the
> date package on Linux. X-axis says
> 
> 11Jan2000    31Jan2000    20Feb2000    11Mar2000

But it is not right in 1.0.0 because of the xaxt="n" not-working bug
that was introduced when someone `tidied up'. It will OK in rw1001
next week (I guess).

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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