[R] Duration labels on plot axes

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon May 1 01:22:56 CEST 2006


That should have been:

library(chron)
plot(times(0:23/24), 0:23)

On 4/30/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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