[R] Date on x-axis of xyplot

Deepayan Sarkar deepayan at stat.wisc.edu
Wed Sep 17 07:29:48 CEST 2003


On Tuesday 16 September 2003 23:51, Jason Turner wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:31, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> ...
>
> > Is the date class standard enough to warrant including a check for it in
> > lattice ?
>
> I've never used it myself, but the lack of POSIXct support in the
> lattice graphics axes has often caused me to think up new ways around
> the plot.  Unless I'm missing an obvious way to apply that...

Actually, lattice does support POSIXct for some time now, although the quality 
of that support (in terms of control over tick locations and labels) is not 
very good. But it might not be too difficult to add support for "date" 
objects as well. 

Deepayan




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