[R] Line plot with date-time on X-axis

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Friday 01 November 2002 02:24 pm, Malladi, Sukhaswami wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> What is the way in R to plot a graph having date time (e.g. format
> 12/31/2002 13:12) in the
> x axis and numerical value (e.g. temperature) on the Y-axis ?

If you have your dates as strings, you need to use strptime() to convert that 
into date-time objects first.


> I could not get 'plot()' to do this as X axis values are non-numeric.
> 'bwplot()' sorts the date
> values and thereby changes the order of the dates and of Y. The date/time
> values have to be
> shown on the X-axis as tick values rotated by 90 deg. as there more than
> 100 points.
>
> I appreciate your suggestions and hints.
>
> Thanks
> sukhaswami
> Lexicon Genetics
>
>
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