[Rd] monthplot() in R?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch@stats.uwo.ca
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:33:14 -0500


On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:36:33 +0100, you wrote in message
<15518.57745.596938.55703@gargle.gargle.HOWL>:

>>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch@pair.com> writes:
>
>    Duncan> The monthplot function in S is useful for plotting
>    Duncan> seasonal data. 

>yes; I've found this a missing feature occasionally myself.
>If I remember properly, S' version built on the output of sabl()
>whereas we'd need one building on stl() out --- if any at all.
>As a matter of fact, I'd like a more general setup that does not
>only work with periodicity 12.
>monthplot() would then only be a compatibility wrapper calling
>the more general function.

Okay, I'll put something together.  I was also thinking of a more
general base function which would be called by monthplot.ts or
monthplot.stl.  The base function would show subsets of the time
series broken up according to arbitrary categories; for monthplot, the
categories would be the months.

Duncan


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