[R] Zoo plotting behavior

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Seems to be there:

> library(zoo)

> methods(window)
[1] window.default* window.ts*      window.zoo*

   Non-visible functions are asterisked

> packageDescription("zoo")$Version
[1] "1.5-2"

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:08 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> R 2.7.1 windows xp and version of zoo upgraded with new installation of R
> 2.7.1 yesterday from CA1 mirror
> window.zoo is not there?
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ?plot.zoo and the zoo faq vignette have examples of custom axes.
>> In the case of chron, the axes are done by chron:::axis.times in
>> the chron package.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:32 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Like for instance that the xlim is small enough where the plot is
>> > showing
>> > the day instead of the year (I believe).  Now that I have figured this
>> > out
>> > (I think).  I would like to know if there is a way to tell plot.zoo how
>> > to
>> > print the date ranges easily.  When I did the example in my previous
>> > email
>> > only 9/09 showed up.  I am trying to close in on widows of data and need
>> > a
>> > little more resolution on the x-axis.   For instance when I am inside of
>> > a
>> > month of data  the month day- inside of a day the day time or something
>> > like
>> > this.
>> > Any thoughts would be appreciated
>> >
>> > Stephen
>> > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:25 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have a matrix with data that runs from 1/1/06 00:01:00-1/31/08
>> >> 23:46:00.
>> >> I have read in the data with this
>> >>
>> >> fmt.chron <- function(x) {
>> >>    chron(sub(" .*", "", x), gsub(".* (.*)", "\\1:00", x))
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> x <- read.zoo(file.choose(), sep=",", header=T, FUN=fmt.chron)
>> >>
>> >> plotted with this
>> >> plot(x[,(seq(3, by=9, length.out=12))], xlim=c(chron("9/01/2006",
>> >> "00:01:00"), chron("1/31/2007", "12:46:00")))
>> >>
>> >> and I was excited to be able to plot subsets with date and it worked it
>> >> worked fine until I put in the above and the axis displays 9/09, but
>> >> still
>> >> seems to plot the data when I change the xlim.
>> >> Thank you very much
>> >>
>> >> Stephen
>> >> I can provide data - I am doing a dry run to see if there is something
>> >> glaringly obvious that I am missing
>> >> --
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>> >> make us
>> >> feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying
>> >> little
>> >> problems of being mammals.
>> >>
>> >> -K. Mullis
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > us
>> > feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying
>> > little
>> > problems of being mammals.
>> >
>> > -K. Mullis
>> >
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>
>
>
> --
> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so
> little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us
> feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little
> problems of being mammals.
>
> -K. Mullis