[R] Show date on graph

[Uwe Ligges]

Syed Abid Hussaini wrote:
> I have a character "2006-11-06" which was originally scanned from a csv file. This character is
> named date. I now use mtext (date) on a plot and i see strange cluttered characters instead of

Then it is not a character but some date/time object such as a POSIXlt 
class. mtext() does not have an appropriate method for it. If this date 
is x, just plot as.character(x) instead.

Uwe Ligges


> 2006-11-06. I tried many ways but i dont know whats going on. Then for testing i made an
> artificial character d <- ("2006-11-06") and now when i do mtext (d) it shows up on the plot.
> While both date and d return "2006-11-06" only d shows up on the plots. Any help would be appreciated.
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