[R] Time series plot

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 12:26:44 CET 2007


Check out #2 in:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/85801.html

and RSiteSearch("axis(4") to find additional examples.

On 1/4/07, Arun Kumar Saha <arun.kumar.saha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Gabor,
>
> Thank you very much for your letter. Actually I got partial solution from
> your suggestion. Still I am fighting with defining a secondary axis. More
> pecisely, suppose I have following two dataset:
>
> x = c(1:10)
> y = x*10
>
> To plot x I can simply write plot(x, type='l'), here the"y-axis" takes value
> from 1:10. Now I want to plot y on a Secondary "Y-axis" on same graphics
> window. Secondary y-axis will take value from 1:100 and plot y accordingly,
> just like Microsoft Excel. Is there any solution?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1/4/07, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You can use read.zoo in the zoo package to read in the data
> > and then see:
> >
> >
> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-December/122742.html
> >
> > See ?axis for creating additional axes with classic graphics and
> >
> > library(lattice)
> > ?panel.axis
> >
> > in lattice graphics.  Search the archives for examples.
> >
> > On 1/4/07, Arun Kumar Saha <arun.kumar.saha at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Dear all R users,
> > >
> > > Suppose I have a data set like this:
> > >
> > > date              price
> > >
> > > 1-Jan-02     4.8803747
> > > 2-Jan-02     4.8798430
> > > 3-Jan-02     4.8840133
> > > 4-Jan-02     4.8803747
> > > 5-Jan-02     4.8749683
> > > 6-Jan-02     4.8754263
> > > 7-Jan-02     4.8746628
> > > 8-Jan-02     4.8753500
> > > 9-Jan-02     4.8882416
> > > 10-Jan-02     4.8895217
> > > 11-Jan-02     4.8871108
> > >
> > > I want to get a time series plot of that dataset. But in x-axis I want
> to
> > > see the first day, and last day, and other day in between them   i.e.
> > > 1-Jan-02,  6-Jan-02, and  11-Jan-02 only. Can anyone tell me how to do
> that?
> > >
> > > My second question is that is there any way to define a secondary axis
> like
> > > Microsoft Excel in the same plot window?
> > >
> > > Thanks and regards,
> > > Arun
> > >
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> > >
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