[R] fine grain tick marks for zoo plots

[Gabor Grothendieck]

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if (any(jan)) ...


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:55 AM,  <tolga.i.uzuner at jpmorgan.com> wrote:
>
> By way of follow-up, this will not work if the time series does not run over
> a year, as the replacement of January by the year fails on the second call
> to Axis.
>
> The following tests for this:
>
> plotmonths<-function(z,...){
>  plot(z,xaxt="n",...)
>  tt <- time(z)
>  m <- unique(as.Date(as.yearmon(tt)))
>  jan <- format(m, "%m") == "01"
>  mlab <- substr(months(m[!jan]), 1, 1)
>  Axis(side = 1, at = m[!jan], labels = mlab, tcl = -0.3, cex.axis = 0.7)
> if(abs(as.numeric(head(index(z),1)-tail(index(z),1)))>367)
>         Axis(side = 1, at = m[jan], labels = format(m[jan], "%y"), tcl =
> -0.7)
>  Axis(side = 1, at = unique(as.Date(as.yearqtr(tt))), labels = FALSE)
> }
>
>
>
>
> Tolga I Uzuner/JPMCHASE
>
> 04/11/2008 14:16
>
> To
> "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
> cc
> r-help at r-project.org, tolga.i.uzuner at jpmorgan.com
> Subject
> Re: [R] fine grain tick marks for zoo plotsLink
>
>
>
> Many thanks all. The following does the trick for me, taken out of the
> vignette:
>
> plotmonths<-function(z,...){
>  plot(z,xaxt="n",...)
>  tt <- time(z)
>  m <- unique(as.Date(as.yearmon(tt)))
>  jan <- format(m, "%m") == "01"
>  mlab <- substr(months(m[!jan]), 1, 1)
>  Axis(side = 1, at = m[!jan], labels = mlab, tcl = -0.3, cex.axis = 0.7)
>  Axis(side = 1, at = m[jan], labels = format(m[jan], "%y"), tcl = -0.7)
>  Axis(side = 1, at = unique(as.Date(as.yearqtr(tt))), labels = FALSE)
> }
>
> Regards,
> Tolga
>
>
>
>
> "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
>
> 04/11/2008 14:06
>
> To
> tolga.i.uzuner at jpmorgan.com
> cc
> r-help at r-project.org
> Subject
> Re: [R] fine grain tick marks for zoo plots
>
>
>
>
> And there are additional examples in
> vignette("zoo-faq")
> and
> example(xyplot.zoo)
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> example(plot.zoo) has an example.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:10 AM,  <tolga.i.uzuner at jpmorgan.com> wrote:
>>> Dear R Users,
>>>
>>> I am trying to get plot.zoo to place monthy tickmarks/labels for a time
>>> series which spans daily data going back a bit over a year. Right now, I
>>> am getting only one tick mark on the x-axis for the beginning of 2008.
>>> How
>>> can I force plot.zoo to place more regular x-axis tick marks on a monthly
>>> basis ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Tolga
>>>
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