[R] Dates on Graphics

[Yves Gauvreau]

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I just want to point something out. I already had the date package loaded
and when I tried help(plot.date) I got "Error in help(plot.date) : No
documentation for `plot.date'". There is no mention of it either in the
index of the package (date) in fact it's not mentioned anywhere except in
the source. I don't think this can be called a bug but it would be nice to
be able to find minimal documentation on this function.

This situation bring me to think that it would be nice to have a way to find
information even when you don't know if it exist, some kind of searchable
index. At this time I do this kind of search using the html search
facilities. Is there some other way that one could this?

Before anyone tells me I understand that contributed packages are realized
graciously and it may be wishful thinking to expect package documentation to
be exhaustive, complete and etc... Just may be, there is a way to extract
minimal information directly from the sources and build some sort of
searchable index or database for all packages under the library directory.

Just a thought.

YG




----- Original Message -----
From: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: "Yves Gauvreau" <cyg at sympatico.ca>
Cc: "r-help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [R] Dates on Graphics


> Yves Gauvreau wrote:
> > I know this was discussed a while back but I don't remember. How can I
show,
> > print or plot formatted dates on the axis of a graphic window? Something
> > like "Jun-07"
>
> Try package "date", available at CRAN.
>
> Example for plotting:
>
>  library(date)
>  plot.date(.....)
>  ## if x-values are dates, you can also use plot(...) after
> library(date)
>
>
> Regards,
> Uwe Ligges
>

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