[R] plotting time series with zoo pckg

[ahmad ajakh]

Dear Gabor,
sorry for not posting the code. below I have a piece of code that generates
a multivariate zoo data (3 columns) and graphs it using the axis
commands to generate the labels. This does not work. However, if one
extracts one column the labelling works using the same commands!
I cannot figure out what I am missing here.
Thanks for any suggestion.
AA.
I am using R version 2.4.0 (windows XP) and zoo package version 1.2-1(2006-09-20).


#-----Begin------------------------------------------
# Let's take the previous example to create a simple zoo data.
 z <- structure(c(21,34,33,41,39,38,37,28,33,40),
                index = structure(c(8044,8051,8058,8065,8072,
                8079,8086,8093,8100,8107), class="Date"), class = "zoo")

# generating 3 random vectors with the same length as z.
jx1 <- rnorm(10); jx2 <- rnorm(10); jx3 <- rnorm(10)
# create a zoo class data using the random vectors.
jx  <- cbind(jx1,jx2,jx3)
z1  <- zoo(jx, index(z))
# now we just repete the previous example.
plot(z1, xaxt = "n")
axis(1, time(z1), lab = FALSE)
jd <- time(z1)[seq(1, dim(z1)[[1]], 3)]
axis(1,jd, as.character(jd),cex.axis = 0.8, tcl = -0.7, las = 2)
# now we extract one column of z1 and graph it with the same axis commands.
z2 <- z1[,1, drop = F]
windows()
plot(z2, xaxt = "n")
axis(1, time(z2), lab = FALSE)
jd <- time(z2)[seq(1, dim(z2)[[1]], 3)]
axis(1,jd, as.character(jd),cex.axis = 0.8, tcl = -0.7, las = 2)
#-------------------End-----------------------------------

----- Original Message ----
From: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
To: ahmad ajakh <aajakh at yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 11:17:44 PM
Subject: Re: [R] plotting time series with zoo pckg

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On 12/26/06, ahmad ajakh <aajakh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Gabor,
> Thank you for your quick reply.
> This solution works for my univariate zoo class time series. I first tried
> it for a timeseries with 4 columns of data, it did not plot the labels nor the
> ticks, I tried it on a one dim timeseries (one column zoo class data as the example
> in the question) and it worked!  is there something that I am missing?
> Thanks again.
> AA.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
> To: ahmad ajakh <aajakh at yahoo.com>
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:31:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] plotting time series with zoo pckg
>
> Try this:
>
>
> # test data
> library(zoo)
> z <- structure(c(21, 34, 33, 41, 39, 38, 37, 28, 33, 40),
>     index = structure(c(8044, 8051, 8058, 8065, 8072, 8079, 8086,
>     8093, 8100, 8107), class = "Date"), class = "zoo")
> z
>
> # plot without X axis
> plot(z, xaxt = "n")
>
> # unlabelled tick at each point
> axis(1, time(z), lab = FALSE)
>
> # labelled tick every third point
> dd <- time(z)[seq(1, length(z), 3)]
> axis(1, dd, as.character(dd), cex.axis = 0.7, tcl = -0.7)
>
>
>
> On 12/26/06, ahmad ajakh <aajakh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am using the zoo package to plot time series. I have a problem with formatting the axes.
> > my zoo object (z) looks like the following.
> >
> >                c1
> > 1992-01-10     21
> > 1992-01-17     34
> > 1992-01-24     33
> > 1992-01-31     41
> > 1992-02-07     39
> > 1992-02-14     38
> > 1992-02-21     37
> > 1992-02-28     28
> > 1992-03-06     33
> > 1992-03-13     40
> >
> > plot.zoo(z) produces a plot with the labels on the x-axis that I cannot control.
> > I want a an xtick every 10 data points with corresponding date labels.
> > I have tried different combination of axis command without success
> > any idea?
> > Thanks
> >
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