[R]How to make the plot when x columns are string list?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Shawn Lee wrote:

> Dear R users:
> 
> I have to plot the data set like the following.
> x <- c("05/27/00","06/03/00","08/22/00",...)
> y <- c(10,20,15,...)
> 
> But plot(x,y,...) do not work!!
> How can i get the proper plot in this kinds of situation.

You need to tell R that x is a date (or at least I presume that is what you
intend).  There are a couple of ways to do this, using packages date and
chron (both on CRAN). Here is one using chron.

library(chron)
x <- dates(c("05/27/00","06/03/00","08/22/00"))
y <- c(10,20,15)
plot(x, y)

which will work if you were in the USA and your first string means 2000 May
27, 2000-05-27 in ISO 8601 date format.  (R 1.2.0 will have facilties to
read those as well as US and European shorthands.)

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