[R] Duration labels on plot axes

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 17:43:20 CEST 2006


The times class in chron will give hours and minutes. e.g.

library(times)
plot(times(0:23/23), 0:23)

and you could modify chron:::axis.times for the others.

On 4/30/06, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> I have a variable containing a measurement of a duration in seconds
> which I would like to use in a plot, with the axes labelled in a format
> like %H:%M:%S (or possibly %Hh%Mm) if the duration is more than an hour,
> or just %M:%S if more than a minute, or just decimal seconds if short
> enough.  Is there a class with an axis.* method defined that has
> behaviour something like this?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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