[R] Date on x-axis of xyplot

[David James]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> 
> > Is the date class standard enough to warrant including a check for it in 
> > lattice ?
> 
> I don't think so.  The POSIX*t classes in R are the most standard, 
> followed by the chron package and only then the date package.

If it is not overly complicated to implement, could I timidly suggest
*not* checking for specific classes inside lattice, but rather use
some other kind of mechanism (perhaps invoking helper functions,
or use specific methods, etc.) to render axes?

A common rule-of-thumb among object-oriented programmers (Mark
Lutz in "Programming Python" comes to mind) is to avoid code that
switches explicitly among classes/types of objects -- such code tends
to be hard to extend when new classes of objects are introduced 
(and extremely hard in R, if package bindings are ever locked,
as namespaces may allow already or in the future).

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